Sea Engines

1.
Distracted by your chrome
bracelet & the clouds of smoke that
gathered there like pelicans
2.
where perhaps only your pearl lipstick responds
3.
w/the least bleeding posture & glance
altogether itching & proprietary
4.
knifing the drizzle
5.
from the terrace above a grove of miniature
palm trees so carefully choreographed
on the sunset pavement
6.
like your eyes but different
7.
was what I said tending toward a
derelict redundancy on the waterfall steps
of the monsoon palace
8.
swaying in the seabreeze
that is so much more cool than your breath
rippling like a burning building from which
9.
only the pelicans escape