blue bowl on white-wood windowsill holding the sky
hemisphering an ocean
below as elbow-leant head-held
chin-upward I think you
are here, blue eyes each day
sealing a cosmos before
me in a beautiful swirled bowl
my world left empty, a
potential you to fill my portal
on the world where below
bright cosmos blow sunny
ever after where my eyes
follow the walkway into
the wider, wilder world
beyond
Sonnet 259 – Special Edition Cheese WaffiesTM
He eyes the label: Guru
Product Line 5
Confection of deep, pressurized selections
specially wrought for Cheese
Waffie TM’s Nth Year
These Cheese WaffiesTM
are denser than others
says snacking Elmore to no one in
particular
in a tooth-digging act of dental
torsion
that only with sharp traction
might he bite,
chomp through corrugated crusty layers
into intense neo-faux cheese
filling
a tight, compact waffle with cheese-ish
spread
A denser chow he cannot imagine
in this or any year no better snack
Elmore draws one from the special
edition bag
and for a moment knows pure victual
bliss
