The Eloquent Argument of Circles

Think I'll just sit here and drink...Haggard

 

The sun glints softly off your teeth

A pale yellow ground into corn

Complete with your ethanol breath

And flapping green ears tossed back

Like floral bats in a reverse shadow

Taking soundings when they could see it all

If they just opened their eyes.

 

The star falls softly to earth

A crater in a pillow

Harmless and feathery

Lulling to sleep all the piping volcanoes

Consumed with their puffery

Their scattering, their shame

Blowing off in a cloud of ash

Coating everything with powdered sugar

A sweet death, a simmering pot

The frog sleeps in the stew.

 

Compound fractures cover the ground

Unwound bandages of river run bloody veins

Through the varicose desert into the blunt forest

Whose trees are stunted, bearing no fruit

In the unnatural spring that comes with the end of the moon

The beginning of a quasar jumping light into ecstasy

Unfiltered, an avalanche of untouchable fire.

 

Don’t panic in the midst of the circus clowns

Their ululating cries coming more moan than laugh

Their flowers spurt acid in your eyes and their

Rubber hammers are made of c4

You cannot hide the comedy of ships grinding into the port

With their empty containers full of yesterday’s news

Heralding dirty bombs carried by ink stained fingers

And its hard to see whose trigger is bigger

 

But it’s important to know the difference, sameness

The eloquent argument of circles

And chickens come home to roost

As in their long houses the cluck and clatter

Signals the denial of salvation

From those who embrace their own fetuses

Before they ever get used to them being born.  

Reviews

[Little Blue]

I remember when you wrote this! We were watching Across the Universe and you said it inspired you.
There are so many lines in this poem that just make me sigh in admiration. It really is a perfect wild romp of the imagination and it takes the reader to this psychedelic world. The imagery drops the jaw and widens the eyes. This has always been one of my favorites.
"A star falls softly to earth
A crater in a pillow
Harmless and feathery."

[Silent Kim aka mizmetap..]

Wow there's so much in this piece, just as the world is a never ending battle of power, who's trigger is bigger says it all. Well written.

[Emily B]

I almost made a list the other day--of all the words that are horribly over-used in poetry of late. And then I read something as unique as this and I don't mind wandering through all the leftovers to get here.

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

What a refreshing tale - so creatively spun. Every line is a delight and though they seem to be distant from one another - it flows well. I love the title as well. Thank you.
Light,
Siddartha

[magic]

Ahhhhh!
Wooooooo!
refreshing mixes of word made image
digggg big!