You wake inside the bones of a ship sailing amniotic
oceans tidal pools tears of the crocodile – your nightgown a second skin
clings like a reputation for sin.
No crying –
Seahorse fetus a treble clef troubling the heave and pitch
waves crashing cursing your old carousing self - one two three you and me
hard-to-lee slack lines head over […]
Not television per se or the chair holding you instead of the couchwhere I sit, remotecontrol out of my hands
Her —
I’m jealous of the two of you
Every night at six o’clockI’m dropped like a forkfor the evening news your need to knowwhat the world did todayOr so you say
And in a wayyou’re right as rain […]
We have been enjoying all of the submissions sent in for Home & Away. Thank you! In the hope of inspiring even more submissions for the anthology, we would like to share two poems that would both fit the theme:
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Our Empty, Empty Bed
After the last child is tucked in,
and the jumble is tamed […]
A project that may be of interest to blue skies poetry readers:
“Poems for Obama is a project started by Kaimana Wolff of the Powell River Live Poets’ Guild. She was inspired by listening to CBC about their project, Obama’s Playlist. She decided that since Obama was such a literary guy, that he would probabaly […]
When I was grass
I sucked up the letter “S”
swallowed it whole, let it slide
up my slender shoots, satisfied
with it’s slippery simplicity,
it’s shape, that one line squiggle,
standing upright and strong, savored
those saccharine scents of saffron,
smoke, and sage, imitated it’s sound
in the shifting and the stirring
of my swaying spears gossiping
in the long slow swim of summer.
When I […]
