Elephant Ears

6/24/22

Category: Beauty, Nature, Poetry

A curl within a curl

within a curl

ad infinitum.

 

A turquoise fractal

with salty skin

and a wicked tongue.

 

The golden ratio—

multiplying itself

in eternal swirls—

a pillow for Poseidon.

 

I stare out at the horizon,

blue walls of hydrogen

and oxygen molecules

holding hands

 

as I listen with elephant ears

to the peels

of white-cap backpacks

on these eternal sojourners.

 

The butterfly-effect is real.

 

Towers that bend

as my feet descend

to taste the ripe fruit

of exotic wings

 

is the passport

time forgot.

7/26/23

“When I was ambitiously young,

looking to grow my Nebu brand

and my Chaldean kingdom,

prophecy struck:

“an invisible hand hewed a rock

from the Mountain

that struck the base of the fountain

that raised to life a statue

with metal alloys and clay parts.

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A strap hangs off her missing shoulder—

a pragmatic prostitute at a makeshift bordello

where there are no curfews,

rules or chores

only dark alleys and cardboard boxes

to claim and explore…

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