OLD TEA WRECKS
He would smile, quite unconsciously, as if in
anticipation of his coming translation which
resented muscle cars as much his coming
translations misrepresented birds. Shelley
nibbled some majoun. Percy at a kumquat.
When you have nothing more to say, just drive
gapers block and phone and drive back home
still with nothing to say. Say nothing to green
shiny flies that weave a strong gauze of smell.
To hot oxygen and gasoline on the buff marked
metal of your hood, leave both radios on loud
in your son's new 1975 Dragonmobile XR 508
with special radium transmission and three
bucket seats. Translated comforts into Beulah
land still don't say a word. Footfall to oboe
release someday. To all competition based
on names and the kindnesses of strangers.
FIVE SONGS IN FIVE MINUTES
I am a messenger stinking. In the offices
of tobacco I do not have a hold on hope.
A run on puny veins has got me all basenji.
The sidewalk is overrun with anchor teams.
The sidewalk has anchors galore in traction.
I shot on dusky pond. I scanned a magpie.
Jude's pet parrot was invited to lacerate
my cheek bone. Hardy, showing a black
bear its dear back, counts our pianist among
the headlights on the highway. Tiny prune
I no more understood the logic of this than
I understood how my pancreas worked.
That trip is like a memory cache. Standing
hygienic and chewing gum the day before
four star hotels were invented. A daily
remonstrance against the strictly hospital
clings to an adenoid every organ recital.
TROUT LILIES ARE BULBOUS PLANTS
Asiatic dayflower is a commelina.
This flower grows on wooded slopes.
The fire pink is a catchfly of rocky hillsides.
Beautiful flowers of the coral gum.
Pickerel weed grows by shallow ponds.
Sundew, a bog plant, traps insects.
Bugle has long rooting stolons.
The hepatica is also called liverwort.
Dutchman's breaches are hardy flowers.
Fringed lilies grow in
The trout lily replicates a masked replica.
This trillium is known as wake-robin.
Confederate violet of the
Wood sorrel grows in deep shade.
Streetlights shine on
a globe that is dark.
A white winter is pearly.
Crazy hunter. Lost
smartest boys on earth
box auroras around
black tree in the bee
yard. Broken beads
and pillars, northern
light (hence the remote
beauty) and the dark
screen cracking light
spar. Long
before I left, I couldn't
get sunfish off my mind.
Test the mettle out of wood.
The white hat of wood
on the best battle
fields. Ferris wheels
perceive the sixth string.
Air on the G string.
CARDINAL FLOWER IS A LOVELY LOBELIA
An early flower of English woodlands.
Lords and ladies is a woodland arum.
An iris from the cascade mountains.
Wild geranium grows in many habitats.
Yellow pond lilies adorn the lakes.
The trailing arbutus grows at the edges.
Azaleas are deciduous rhododendrons.
These beautiful orchids are fragrant.
Purple fringed orchis grows in
Toothwort is a parasite on hazel.
Fireweed grows after woods are burnt.
The climbing nightshade is poisonous.
The jewelweed is an orange balsam.
MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE
Sparking in every pattern likens silver to episodes.
Quieter starlings outnumber the sandpaper one.
Breezes swear you put
Our ceiling fan praised leaves, and praises.
Heterogeneous icons. City hymnology
Giving grease a ride, an added scent enriched.
Down anthracite. He was my lover’s maze.
Flora and fire went to
Happiness increases as the population explodes.
If pubes be wool, wool wires bleat white.
Millions now living will never die. The calm could
be read once in a sitting and that sit was its allure.
G_D-FORSAKEN COMPUTER
That the Greeks chose not to name
tiny.
involves woof. Equal pulses of breath
Frets upon the porky pine.
In my vicinity, survival intrigued
the curious. Salt in annals
Ending in stops. It is its own insult.
Take up thy Thucydides and walk.
A navy vying and an army vying.
I've held to the middle of a crooked tip.
© 2008 Chuck Stebelton
