today's poem is 4 short poems - 'Aretha', 575, 'Silken Ships with Silver Skin, 'Elvis Postcard'

 

Aretha

botch and blemish

the Queen is dead

disjoin and disjoint

while mischief larks                   

other machines

streaked with day

are set to wing

and loosed upon us

-all bets are off

 

fear-strangled

the earth has fallen

 

 

575

we’re apt to do these

our scandalously done wrongs

in total darkness

 

 

Silken ships with silver skin

 

Run together like rain

earth borne airiness

distinctly merged

though sharing qualities

 

Rain in movement: sound and water

and wind liquid yet insensible;

physical yet lyrical

love beyond temperate reason

 

 

Elvis Postcard

What’s your address?

I’ll drop you a line

time to time

just to reminisce

we are yet alive