Savage ( third, very extensive revision )

savage is a good word
                 a beastly word

it does what it wants to

some words are lazy

like procrastinate or 

                           guess

but savage…

now that’s a word with      teeth

lions and sharks are savage

a wild eyed              mountain man

is savage

reality – savage

             savage is a machinist 

bending steel

             savage is the sun's core

roaring

in a grand fusion

savage is      savage

it's a good word

it moves with purpose

savage hunts down    other    words

consuming them

while some British personality narrates

Work-shopping

I love the sound of shuffling paper…

a search fruitless and loved

who wants to go first

sounds that you found

play with the form.

curious about the process…

strong, experimental, needs work…

The rhyme is deadly.

Fucking punctuation Nazis!

I might not be reading it close enough

in defense of the dashes

Tom and Jerry escapade

you have some real joys in it

random spurts of information

interesting and terrifying

it needs work – arrogant

see, no capitals

The ending needs work

I love the ending

I wanted more…

don’t change a thing

I think there is a missed opportunity here…

I would always keep in mind that…

Blueberries ( Third, ever so slight, Revision )

Blueberries

Spring

Breezing around

 a slight chill being won over to sun

Olive and I share blueberries

she loves

they burst

she smiles

the constancy of children’s happiness

they say blueberries grow brain cells in the pre-frontal cortex

gifting the ability

to learn

and memory

the power of the blueberry

Am I teaching Olive to remember?

Will this shared happiness support her in the savage days of puberty?

The malaise of adulthood?

Will she crave blueberry pancakes?

the season forces my hand

the blueberries scatter across the earth

returning me to her eyes

her perfect ringlets made translucent by sun

the futility of holding on

to anything

she runs off into the yard

the wind stealing her laughter

Late Spring

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Uneven sun

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Concerning The Body

First comes the fantastic electrical system

followed by...
Ladies and gentlemen...

The Bones.

The eye bone is
connected to the Pollock
bone
the insane alcoholic bone
is connected to the Isaac Brock
bone
the 3rd Planet
bone
is connected to the Dostoyevsky
bone, the concious man
bone is connected to the
Ghandi bone, the
alteration of the thought process of mankind
bone
is connected to the Michaelangelo bone
the smooth porceline bum
bone
the you bone
is connected to the laughing bone
is connected to the joy bone
is connected to the yearning bone
is connected to the some kind of action hero bone
is connected
to the me bone
the every
single
thing
bone

And now...
The Empty Gestures

Green Wall

The tree family
Occupying my yard
Calling themselves a wall
To the west
Demand attention
They drink the soil sun
Attack the garage
Reach for the power
Lines, they will cut
Off the links to media
Threatening
to tear me from them
Them from us