Carousel

Melancholia and Delight

Didn't go to the fair

They went their ways

As rapacious rainbows

Hid and surfaced

Sulking harmonica

Sent anonymous 

Invitations 

To Jack-in-the-box

Insomniac, imbecile

Rooted restless glue

Jugglers played the flute

Under wild midsummer

Raced the circus tent

Melancholia reached home

But Delight lost her way

Accidentally met the box

Fair came by instead

To complicated cube

Neon whirl

Pickpocket

Can of an ocean haze. 

Rustle of a sand sheet.

Wind truant handkerchief.

Pocket rock surreptitious.

[November 8, 2014]

Clock Tower

Alone rushed

Kindred past

Didn't you know

That hours wait

Stillness stops by

Lazy they'd meet

In cloaked seconds

Fade out and cut

Clockwork love

Time for none

[August 14, 2014]

Somersaults

Somersaults of a wily noon

Tell you the toyest lie

Pieces of a twisted compass

Pointing south, skewed high

Tumble in the current

Where static sticks like magnet

In electric charge twines

Acrobat dream

Whirlwind deadlock

[August 14, 2014]

Perfect Ten

Streetened dust

Cast in bones 

Strange, hidden

Bitter, remains

Where reflections hang 

Upon tungsten shards

Flashes of faraway frolic

A dreamy iris watches 

Behind nose-pressed glass

Like a falling kite trapped

Whiffs appetise, famished, waits

Yellow fire, crimson smoke

Sprinkle salt, spices call

Whipped wounds on the side

Tossed and shaken

In a newspaper packet

Hate and hope

Served mint fresh

[July 27, 2014]

Solstice

Windscreen winding

Roadside rising

Glinting asphalt

Twilight shining

Nets on wayside

Trees, wild, hiding

Stardust memories 

Of long ago

Revolving, forgetting 

That they met before

Whenever you crossed

Driving in rain

Losing and finding

Your bluest vein

[June 21, 2014]

Yellow 12

Yellow 12

Cut square and firm

Mountain pieces from ago

And fractions of a puckish sky

Wound in those stranger pines

[June 7, 2014]