06/01/2014

fisherman's friends

 

furious skytall Atlantic
rams grey into white into
white into grey
sky violence

the beach restaurant quivers rumbles
no customers but I
the world around us onslaught of
forty feet tall towering inferno
rushes straight at the window
across from my half-finished dish
of pan-fried fish
'coffee please', my voice kept steady.

and the tide keeps rising.
mint may, sweet’eart

iridescence

go and ride a thousand days, my clear-eyed messengers, scour all points of the compass and find me a glimpse of iridescence for shining...