Locks, Quills, and Flow

Featured is Locks Above Water & an episode of my poetry audio blog. Spoken word poems include Subservience and Flow, 4, & Not-to-Begotten Bird. I also discuss bees, dreams, & meditation.

Locks, Quills, and Flow

If you are looking for a more immersive experience, join me for another episode of my audio poetry blog. Included are a spoken word version of today's featured written poem and the additional piece Subservience and Flow(new), 4, and an oldie but a good, Not-To-Begotten Bird. I also discuss bees, dreams, and meditation. I promised you will be soothed. If you tune in, please let me know. I love to hear back from other poets:)

If you are having none of the audio part. I got ya. You don't know what you are missing, or maybe you do. It is all good. The written version of Locks Above Water is found below, keep scrolling.

Locks Above Water

intertidal

ebb and flow

play the coquette

play hard to get

but welcome surrender

when the crepuscular tide

blushes to pastel indigo

immerse yourself
join the divine cosmic dance
a spacetime-caped pasodoble
between contrast and appreciation

there is no refusing the lead
only dragging your feet
tripping and falling
chaffing your limbs

                    there is
no dimension and depth
current or flow
without dark and light
warmth and cold
pressure differential

swim, little sylph
but keep your locks
above water

keep your face
turned to the solar
lather and moisten
siesta and umbrella

flit among the dapple

but flirt too closely with shadow

your individuality swallowed
lost to a circular tide and flush
compressed to singularity

I'm all for togetherness, swimming together
but let's keep it at arms length
save for in a panic, we together forever

stray past the event horizon, sink to the abyss

kiss the free form octopi
the Fibonacci shelled nautilus
submit to the spiral never-ending stellar waltz

get giddy and even heady
interlace with red-shifted fingertips

but don't over-commit or cling

keep at least one firm toe grip
buried deep and anchored 

in the silvered sands of the material

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Locks Above Water is published in my collection Domesticate the Heavens.

Please visit my blog to further explore the accompanying photos and essay, some bonus poetry, and keep up-to-date with all my writing. 

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