Weekend Walkabout

Weekend Walkabout

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Remote Wilderness and his estranged wife, Jane, watch me from the tree-line as I drink down the warrior moon. One sinful bite of a yesterday dipped in a whispered Jordan. Mind pox shrunken like voodoo heads that wag hello from the forbidden hut, but still, the psychic itch remains. Skyscraper stepchildren sink into the ocean of green forever. I will miss the eyes in their lights. Here, nothing familiar to hold. Nothing unsavory to hide. Just red feet over white sands and a dial tone sunrise that refuses to sleep. My prayers seem fuzzy lately. The headman says that, out here, it’s best to use a drum.

 

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Waltz my muddy river to creamy cleanliness. A spirit bird preened to shadowy perfection calls me onward. An upright serpent salesman with no official name tries to sell me damaged fruit from a gunny sack. I’m hungry, but too poor for a fancy meal. I’ve stolen dewberries from the under-gods while they were arguing about the shape of my journey. I hope they’re impressed with my cunning.

 

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Soon, I will toss my hatchling soul from the red mountaintop, and hope it is ready to fly. Otherwise, I’ll be home in the morning in time to get ready for work. Please leave the leftovers in the fridge in case I’m not as mystical as I’d dreamed. These deep noises from the crags seem to have teeth. I’ll call you back after they’re done eating me.    

Reviews

[Kenneth The Poet]

Man, I don't know how you do it, but you have a mastery of the English language that I can only in awe of. This is a vision quest in my mind, the kind one sees after they drink a spiritual tea that has a weak form of peyote in it. Point is, you are connected like Bill Hicks was, you are on the outside looking in and the vision you have is one that could move future generations in positive direction. As always, bravo on your prose!

[freelancejouster]

you create entire worlds from nonsense and i just sit here in awe of your accomplishments flitting about the poem and hope they fly into my slack-jawed mouth. i don't know if i'd want to take that phonecall.

[KAREN]

Great use of metaphors! Imagery is perfect, and I love stanza two and three!

[Blue Moon Ice Cream]

You amaze me with your creativity and your colorful words. I don't know what else to say.

[KimLove "The Beautiful ..]

Very intriging write... In a way I agree with Ken except it sounds like a bad acid trip to me something from the 70's. Nice job.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A gift of grammatical English with heaps of talent, well done

[Robin]

Oh man ! ... perfectly described ... I know where every word here comes from ...

"The headman says that, out here, it’s best to use a drum"

[Ruth]

Holy cow! lol This is simply amazing metaphor! The structure is impressive too love....I am sorry I cannot give a better review....but I am seriously speechless! lol xx

[Kerry O'Connor]

The opening 7 words were enough to make me smile and shake my head...

You know I always love your prose triptychs but this has just become an instant favourite - for all the right reasons, which I shall not innumerate here :)