Naps in a corkscrew,
A dark drift that deepens,
Slow–wave gliding :
A mammal diving
With hemispheres asleep ;
Rises for a breath of blue—
A shift for relevant teal .
*[ WSB ].
The elephant seal
Author: waltersboxx
My self was born XVII: XLII, Dies Lunae, XI.V.MCMLXIV at Latitude: 33-17'40'' N Longitude: 083-57'58'' W: Jackson is in Butts County, Georgia at an elevation of 705 feet. Interests include reading/writing, currently working on hodgepodge book: poetry, essays, other. Retired, Air Force. Divorced. Ephemeris heavily populated by Taurus: Sol, Luna, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter--my two daughters say--I like old things; classics, I would counter. Interests: formatting documents/tables, classical music *a pattern forms*, Shakespeare, Joyce, Jung: maybe I was born old. Sadly, I have not published anything—more critic than creator, so far. However, English major still tantalized by math.
No. 38 : CCLXXXVIII Plate
The yellow shank stands
On a grassy shore Carolinian;
Studies shapes Linnean
Past parallels that step a glassy lake.
Moss plumbs perpendicular
To the angles of gloss and bird
That soon will stalk to the edge and stir.
On a grassy shore Carolinian;
Studies shapes Linnean
Past parallels that step a glassy lake.
Moss plumbs perpendicular
To the angles of gloss and bird
That soon will stalk to the edge and stir.
*[ WSB ].
The Exception
The eagle flies on Friday .
It’s pay day pronounced
Rhythm & blues, when
Hypnotic percussion grips
The spirit lifted by the wind .
It’s pay day pronounced
Rhythm & blues, when
Hypnotic percussion grips
The spirit lifted by the wind .
The airbrakes sigh in depot ;
The door folds back : monday storm .
Climb over the humpback norm,
Backdrop snare brushes slide–slapping slow .
*[ WSB ].
Ocean Fire
The rainbow fish above coral red
In the crystal–green ocean
Exist in the twisted sun breaking
Through the changeable surface .
The rays reflect the ocean palette
From ancient gliding jewels,
The acrylics and watercolors
Brightly flashing underneath .
The charcoal sharks and black pastel rays
Blend into the ink–fathomed
Canvass past the limit of sun .
The slipcoat spines of globefish
Spread like silver stars in the nightsky,
Cold above the bleeding kiln,
Orange like kumadori clownfish
Weaving through cornflower mop strands swaying to the ocean song .
*[ WSB ].
Eostre
Cuckoo clouds painted equinoctial,
Cottontails drifting over colored eggs
Set Fabergéan in the misted grass.
Children scramble to basket the boon,
And renest the scattered hues of blessing
Before baubles weeble down the brae.
Nearby, ears acute of Osterfuchs,
A spring hare, and rabbit-bandicoot.
The goddess smirks as kinder search for loot.
*[ WSB ].
Spirited Away
Absinthe makes the head go yonder—
Stirring wormwood to pluck sugarplums .
*[ WSB ].
[On the] Sliderule
Any problem is as simple
As 2 × 2 .
Logarithmic device,
The middle moveable that glides
Across manual scales,
The indicating boxcar
Rides tracks and rails
Stops at crossings
For calculation consistent .
*[ WSB ].
Doppelgänger
Baby doesn’t like it when father shaves his beard :
It’s just too weird,
A doppelgänger to be feared .
*[ WSB ].
Response in Pointed Format
The problem with the death penalty :
One cannot exonerate the dead .
*[ WSB ].
Salaam, on Trump:
Thirty-four years ago, your full-page ad stated, in all caps: “CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS.”
You were wrong then, and you are wrong now. The civil liberties of all Americans are grounded in the U.S. Constitution, and many of us fight every day to uphold those rights, even in the face of those like you who seek to obliterate them.
— Yusef Abdus Salaam
[one of the Exonerated Five] —
*[ WSB ].
Amphibian Spread
In the gravy boat near the pond edge
Caecilians swim through the mud like eels ;
Otherwise, they toothpick through sponge–cake
Soil with their crusty–heel jaws like hammers .
The umami swamp air mushroomy,
The frogs croak on green lily-pad plates,
Their meringue eggs frothy at the rims ;
Tadpole dumplings simmer in the soup .
The perfumed world waits to be feasted
By Anura with geschmackssheibe for
Screening savory comestibles
From bitter injurious tidbits or
Sour : fermented, acidic, rotten .
Efts emerge from gelatin dessert
As smoky salamanders sizzle,
Dunking in psychotropic brandy .
The amphibian predators with
Fungiform papillae from the time
Of mosses, ferns, horsetails, and calamites,
When the tetrapodomorphic fish
Thrust onto the Devonian shore,
Thrash and vault toward a smörgåsbord .
*[ WSB ].
Occupation : Poet . 