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