PLEASE HELP BLUE PRESS STAY AFLOAT

Sunday, September 1, 2013

I never knew when to say when


Your little heart flips

maybe spins off a pirouette

the way a page torn from a dream flutters

as it falls

                            & I wait where the gull’s

call pierces the thundering

              concrete the wash of foam the

                            wet sand sliding beneath my

                                    feet the raw mist relentless

                                                as drifting ashes of neon . . .


              the sky dropping in to add a little

              contrast


                                    Your jungle canopy

                                                & the shattered glass


with a seabreeze

                                     strumming the fence wire

& the fortune palms

               like the tide

                                                whispering your name