Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Games children play


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Pass the note, begin the silent treatment


Let's pretend she's gone un-visible
and talk about her funny eyEs

laugh at her
                           fu.n.ny

            c
                  r       y


-- it's nothing to cry about
-just-kidding around-
come on now;

let's pretend to cry too/let's pretend to be her friend/lets
give her a hug!


        After lunch,

let's pretend
______ was never here.


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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Reptiles do not think as we do.


 (...)


A monitor lizard

                ,snake-like,

tongue flicking at
the humid morning air

for molecules
               tastes my being

               coming
before I 
see him;

he creeps
              into a run
 and
        slithers

into the underbrush

I look         for him

         and I see him --
scaly earthy ancient

body and tail
thick
     like the roots
           of a sea-grape tree;

a leathery stonehead with stygian eyes
shiny stares    at

 me

        or is it just the green water
       beyond?

I leave him be.


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Updated: 8 June 2013