huit.

Grass jelly

black slippery seals
sweet dessert of time & past
melts upon fork-tines.

sept.

Watermelon seeds

regrets
like watermelon seeds
lodged in pink fruit-skin.

enclosed
by soft bruises
easily punctured by a toothpick;
but slides off just as easily.

saved watermelon --
because bruises are stronger.

regrets
like watermelon seeds;

thank them for
the bruises they leave,
the dark pink spots around
watermelon seeds.

six.

Lemon soda

i found you
sunny citrus

only the bubbles though;
yellow and bursting and
singing of sunshine.

buoy my spirits,
but not for long;

my koala, my lion, my peacock, my owl
they're all too far away --
shrouded by the eucalyptus trees,
all too far away

and i know lemon soda
will turn sour one day.

cing.

Pink sunglasses

silent white
i'm standing on a conveyor belt
only moving one way -- forward

strobe lights
fading from the dance floor
only moving one way -- away

muted fireworks
faraway sparkle in eyes
only moving one way -- apart.

you're silent and still,
too much for

pink sunglasses to erase

quatre.

Wish

Again I make an
impossible wish on a
nonexistant star