The cobra proves coward

The dragon drab and persnickety (work? what’s that?)

And both just want to sleep.

But seems the scaled one with gratitude for kindness (and a true beating heart that endured kibble)

And who magically grew fur

Should have place before Made in China...

Your sister showed up today,

Black wings rather than banded body,

Could it be the same wink from another dimension?

First sign of spring but in the fall time

In the upside down world has a meaning

Crosswinds

We live

We adjust

You die

Tangent from the cloaked one goes

To closed, covered eyes that once burned

The forecast is cloudy hazy smoggy with girded muscle

Girded human muscle stands at the...

Callous pre-pubescents

Hired (voted in?) to run our country

Risk it all for human flotsam jetsam

Investigate cause of roadkill

Scour online for signs of naughty emotion

Too trite to say outloud

Many’s reason for a whole season

Always vulnerable to a nudge or shuffle

Spirit eludes but can find me for a kiss...

It used to be much easier to forgive than to forget,

That was before ‘culture’.

The wasteland makes you grip to an outrage of spontaneity

Whether yesterday (not likely) or ten years ago,

Not thoroughly consciously aware that it’s gripped like a clam does a sand grain.

‘I Was!’ the injury confirms.

I was a receiver, now barricaded behind scar tissue and nutrient-bare soil?

Meaning from molehill

...

Fourteen and alone, sometimes even in the hood and alongside the street if her caretaker is stupid enough.

Tory Flotilla spent years - years!! - providing solace to ignorant humans. The poems and singing she endured .. awful. Loneliness and poor vittles .. awful. Those she was assigned to were flaky and flitty yet she understood contracts, made before incarnation, that brought her to the test of ...

All your eyes fall on will look like a cat soon

You know the one - that cat

The flutter of a leaf = twitch of whisker

Under draping ivy

Beside empty fountain

Amongst meeting of crows

There!

The throbbing fur goes

And the steel will trap it

So say the marbles in your head when they collide

Seems the cat knew you fed her the dead all along

And the most living is pawprint left when scouring for w...

Beneath us pumped out caterpillar greenery

Instead now gold-yellow-brown monarch

Taken by torrents

To ho hum steel-dull drains.

Executioner tells us we love,

Reveling in the taken-for-granted when it goes.

Sunset still there but more demure,

We are ready for the holding-of-breath.

Each with mittens, boots, umbrella

Each a solo wonder, Can I hold the beat?

To have a chrysalis as lantern j...

You’ve got the claw,

I’ve got the fang

What we have most of all

Is knowing we do this

Four hoofed, four pawed

All think they can be winged

Stop their spinning and tuck away

When we’re on the periphery

Center stage a brute force act

Memory of the script primordial

Audiences feign they live through chatter

Yet worn groove shows they live through us...

A-Z

Cursive carefully constructed

Highest marks for penmanship

And a memory too

So I’d anticipate the dates

And return the letters,

Receive their weather, animals, neighbors, change - the poignantly peripheral.

That was when there could be Thou;

But now?

The narcissist beasts interfere,

Contaminate,

It’s not good enough to have robot script,

The contents also need to be ash.

The overseer is cy...

The best things in life allow me to speak

And don’t judge and shun

Although they’re silent

There’s the apprehension of potential words,

There’s also ‘just’ the receiver,

Appearance same

Inner state opposites

In a land of sterility with the norm being heads barely above water

You are not an impotent tool

As the waves return to the sea, so the words give way to silence....