girl and a dog

Happy bird day to me. An Aquarian Dragon. And to other Aquarian Dragons.

For the surgeon

Quickening at midnight
the bone marimba
will dance macabre indefinitely
dangling the light fantastic
A push of wind from the dank garden
A glockenspiel cavorts
sliced away from the bone
sinews dangling
Then needles will dance
a minuette for the surgeon
A sward of black in the tumbling light
Bandages whorl and whistle
whomp and swirl like sails
and sinews knit and platelets
will dance the dance of healing
Bow deep/ body/
surgeon/ bow deep

Scherzo

(for my third boyfriend)

She is my she-wolf The bitch
gliding in an open-top can’t be expected
Mercedes laughing Slut I ought to
trails of notes Over and over
falling klingtk dingtk she falls from
klingtk my hand
to the floor She is Lilliput
like silver keys She is spit
the sun is her Salope!
dripping blood orange Oh,
She even as I kick
adopted me, let me her she
in her legs round brings me down
her skirt an adagio frill A hole
She’s my padded room where my
my honey ant dream
my package through customs ought to be