Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Poem: Orgy


Orgy

Chocolate the color of sex,
white the flavor of jazz I
sing cherries, wining my gums on the
spearmint hills of Salinas

Metronome heels on green marble,
moonmoth Fleming cadenzas, strike and
leave strike and drive, labrador
growl, sidelong smile Jaguar
chassis the swoop of
sunlight, bark of babies,
low bacon sizzle of surf.

We hear we see, we chew the
world on our skin we
dance to first, snap the
catch, leather applause,
sting of tobacco the sudden of
silence.


A bell tolls the estuary.
An egret scrapes the fog.
Woodsmoke peppers the
nose with evening.

Asphalt rain, catfight lightning,
sigh of airbrakes, redwink Mars on a
peanutbutter beach, portabella
sponge the waitress shivers,
lipstick on damp wool

Pizzicato lights on Capitola,
waves of lionbreath, frogs on a
boast, fizzing rake of
crickets, bourbonswill seals
upswell of ale, salmon coda
sunset, lavender scratch,
oilfin mirrors of slate


Kiss of cedar on a popsicle wind,
fields of coconut, shapeshifter
blast of a downhill run,
cinnamon heat, fairy
crystal crossbar

Cannabis gravity, yardsale crash,
obliterant confetti quailflap clack you
slide to a lemondrop stop.

Denim sky.
Firbranch riffle.
Roast beef shout the

stab of Scotch,
sasparilla woodgrain, gorgonzola
squirm, firetip chuckle,
wave of yellow, wave of orange
glissando hair, color of pasta
weightless ampersand the
crescent eyes that stop the
song




From the collection Fields of Satchmo

Photo by MJV

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