Hour 21 Cat kisses

Tenderness is her soft whiskers against my skin, precious is her nose near mine, She sits as I open two books read a chapter from each. Her kisses start my day.

Umbrella

Shield me keep me covered with protection I have grown weary of rain  

Wheelbite

Scorpion pose, on the neck Feet thrown forward behind the head sculpted perfectly comet being tighten trucks next time

Decades of Decay (Hour 18, A Four Square Poem)

  Decades of Decay   Beaten Bloodied Blackened Broken   Rage Unchecked Hatred Unspoken   Together Trashed Rancid Rotten   Forever Lost Future Forgotten   ****A four square poem has four stanzas of four lines each, where each line is only a single word.****  

A Second Breakfast (Hour 20)

My doctor is a bore Frets like a mother hen The fuss? My weight   Who will deny me those late night raids in the kitchen while the house slept? those tippy-toe moments as I hear a door swing- pause silence Oh, dad, I just…

Shimmer

Dangle a nebula around my neck. I will carry her. I will carry you if you’ll let me. Take this white dwarf. No, take it. A gift. It’s okay to say yes. Lean on my rings. You are safe. Comet of the last decade will…

Practicality

“Come in, she said I’ll give ya shelter from the storm..” – Bob Dylan I have never had much use for umbrellas keeping rain at bay as antithetical to a poet as sunscreen to a snowman I need no portable canopy except for thoughts let…

Lagos, Nigeria (Hour 19)

an urban contradiction of the sane and insane coexisting in an asylum called city by name   of a concatenation of smells expensive perfumes fighting sosorobia¹ body odor hiding beneath the aroma from mamaput¹²   factories belching pollution competing with paraga³-drinking drunkards- staggering is the…

Poem 21

her mind is a mystic umbrella protecting my soul from the raining pain of my past.