Colored Folk

I'll strive to verse you colorless
for you to later paint by numbers

I've learned rooms painted screaming red,
play more intense than had the same
been decorated pinkish.

I strive for you to savor my foreign tongue
in a dialect compatible to your own

I try my udder best to do you English,
what still challenges me in native Russian,
a touch of French I picked in Poland, that it may tickle,
for whereas milk's color is white, night's is considerably denser.

It's Always In December

Uncle Jose Antonio, you were right
I should have been a priest.
It's always in December
I do not suffer for the baby
I suffer for the season

Maggie Sides The House

Winter threatens
December knives landscapes
Trees not undressed
show a leaf fat and metal

Such a tree is Magnolia
As with Lilly, as with Willow,
Magnolia, too,
a proper name for woman.

Enchantment

Were leaves to fall Mars to Earth
As seasons come from beyond our reach
Can leaves fall more distant
than young hearts in love fall to pieces ?

I knew a boy who thought he knew a girl
Hand in hand they walked streets
Neither he nor she knowing the paths walked
were laid ancestral .

Ode to paths which lead back from whence we came
Put on seashell lobes to hear the undercurrent concerts
Look up to see night's magic, that the stars we think we see
may long ago have disappeared

1 Minute Galaxy

Enter light out of darkroom
Re enter into darkroom once more
Photo graph

Curtain in function of essence
Shutter in function of presence
Shutter graph

Desire made flesh
How many people the planet
7 billion minus or plus

Concert of variables all
1 minute galaxy
Bang goes the Universe

Nun Gets It

He rhymes with thyme
the posts he posts

She whops to tens
the colors of her palette

It's all good
No one gets hurt

Post Postpartum Considerations

Had it not have been better
the brothers been aborted
than birthed to commit patricide?

Their surname is Melendez.
The fate of them is sealed.
Tricky word this word,  "fate."