Wednesday, August 12, 2009

DEATH OF BETELGEUSE




Down the street

With fettered stroll

Handsome, and behind frames

Food Poisoning


Over the blazing, pale asphalt

Into white roadside railing

Cowering medics

Spilled ammunition

Milkshake and candy-bar


Tree, encircled

Chess-board canopy

Dry palms

Glasses shriek


Green in face

With disgusting guts

Lips reddish

And other relics

Out of the purse

Piquant sacks

Hygroscopic salt


Joined in queue

Behind a locust-tree

Pies, cakes, cookies

Stone clad in acrylic


Dates in canopy

Wave suckled in

Jet breaching

Crickets


Abandoned sinks

Forgotten cream

Season's leaves on piles

Brother takes brother's

Bread-squash


Electrical tomato

And warm aprons

Cramped, on their knees

Dying, departing

Rage

In disbelief


Empty car-shells


Stick and nylon

Swung by wind

Electric impacts

Lift sea


Pills in jar

Crystals

Butter on table-cloth

Painted cherries


Clutched in hand

Newspaper's leaf


Dog fell


Through fig's-canopy

Entangled

Hair


Open sea

Gone wild

Rocking continents


Levee breaks

Marinas gurgle


Portable modules

Pulled uphill by

Stricken

Renaults


Mountain dances


Calico dresses

Undressed by wind


Towers chiming

God has defected into

Prophets


Beasts and cattle


Some jump into death

Some crawl in fear


Roads to nowhere


Where will they live?


Bird on a rock


Frog within a swirl


Children step

Crunch cornets


There in a meadow

Rolling over flowers

Licking sugar


Drunken bees


Moon hid

Into the eclipse


Sun overdone


Milk in

Cow


Baby on sponge


Sorrow drowns

Softened glacier

Ice floats

With the Rhine


Dragging cross


Pregnant virgin

Kindles mesosphere