building the cat
Posted: March 28th, 2014, 11:47 pm
please come
if you show up
and find me under the car with only my legs protruding
& a banging noise going on
it won't be because i'm trying to fix something
but trying to tear something away that's broken
& don't worry about the alien music in the streets
trying to pass itself off as
a proper breakfast just as
the stars go down
then click! - a photograph - black & white
of a girl
with thin lips unhidden
by fall of hair
the tops of teeth peeking
behind the lips...
... i wonder what other poets
would have done with a girl
whose face was like that
they might have found a haiku moment
a whole new land or maybe
a continent even
or trees waking up
beginning to speak
to each other
as the turtles
still sleep
snugged in deep mud
just beneath the bottom
if you show up
and find me under the car with only my legs protruding
& a banging noise going on
it won't be because i'm trying to fix something
but trying to tear something away that's broken
& don't worry about the alien music in the streets
trying to pass itself off as
a proper breakfast just as
the stars go down
then click! - a photograph - black & white
of a girl
with thin lips unhidden
by fall of hair
the tops of teeth peeking
behind the lips...
... i wonder what other poets
would have done with a girl
whose face was like that
they might have found a haiku moment
a whole new land or maybe
a continent even
or trees waking up
beginning to speak
to each other
as the turtles
still sleep
snugged in deep mud
just beneath the bottom
Gracias for sharing it!