Blue murex

You came to me We met, we merged Your eyes, two pools Limpid, serene No half measures I plunged, submerged Immersed within Aquamarine What once was clear Became infused Sanguine at first, When love was new Now left bereft My…


Seaside samba

It comes to her in times like these, A-swaying gently in the breeze, Soft seaside sand on endless afternoons. That hollow ache, remembering Her innocence, the bloom of spring, Now lost forever, washed away too soon. Too restless now to…


Sacrifice

Awareness pierced As though through the slow curving sparks above, While phosphor-gleaming surf was swirling round your boots, Tilting your poise. Infused, you knew the elemental frame: The fragile bond among all living things came clear. It’s been disturbed. You…


DDT

(DDT: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) Dichloro, diphenyl, trichloro, ethane. The Nobel prize, perverse nobility. Born from destruction, spoils of war. A chemist conjured grim toxicity, Was gifted that guilt-stained reward. Dichloro, diphenyl, trichloro, ethane. Fortuitous discovery: Insecticide improves our lives. The capitalist industry…


Reverence

A. Your first approach. Tread yellow sand Swept into crescent dunes Scored with swerving ripples corrugate. When you debouch: Keen ozone tang, Brine sudden on your tongue, Bracing wash of sea breeze in your face. B. Slow rolling curls collapse,…


Phylogeny

Demure in your outworn attire, You blend discretely in the group, Shrug off the schoolyard taunts and skipping rope. Endure instead the numbing chores, domestic care, ’Till you can stealthily escape. Snakes and spiders, finches, ferns: Myriad forms reticulate. A…


Oblong

While compositionally unremarkable, Oblong is the result of a fresh attitude. Instead of striving for some sort of artistic growth, the piece emerged from simply playing around, venturing where inclination led. Its patterns and phrases are not square. Rather, they…