El Bongo

Ask for what you want
blink & it’s gone

fancy footwork

who knows where it comes from desire…

              & the dancers each of them only part human
              each of them wears a feathered headdress
              & a long string of pearls

What about palm leaves rustling above
              feathered shadows scraped off the concrete
“Please notify a physician if you experience
eccentric breathing”

Woke up hungry in Santa Cruz.   Pause.
Touch the ground.

              Woke up drunk in Bora-Bora.   Reinventing
              the ocean haze.   Rocks along the shoreline
              burst into flame.

Someone said
“How you doing?”
& I said

I think you’re looking at it...