Sunday Scribbling #158: Scary

Image: Coastal / Costal

Rival Knots

Marginalia -
the kind of bliss you
associate with tweaking the truth
of a passionate kiss,
paletas on a summery summer day,
vigor extraordinaire:
Patrice's forget me nots,
rival associations we
cannot help but squander -
amitryptiline gloriosa -
the melancholia that withered Van,
insured John and merely
bothered the sincere. How
much better to elevate cancer
to its positive connotations,
when the winds blow
and the ankles brace
and simplicity loses its allure:
bravely I came to see that
she was not the evolution
of our desires,
her caprices borrowed from
sun kings and moons of the
central nervous system. I could
go there with you, but it
loses the translation
of vice in the grip
of a sanity
both lush & loose in its
quinine vowels,
caravans of surly costals shared,
coastlines devoured.
Prithee, may the winds cry,
may sleep unweary,
may the vines of mercy
vary the gathering days.