flatter sweet adoration

for my sweet friend:


pencil drawn parents
grasps the cup tight bangs
on her window headless sill
and warm slides over the oven door
heating shoulders while hands burn
for a guilty pleasure

a panting dog sports wool shorts
in summer squirts mustard so
swords and dirty words like
underpants. ketchup.
dragonblood.
mother makes a pack lunch snappy crisp
takes troubador mimicry
for that boy only dances winged
and cries when he stops

some kind docks lay drunk on
stars by night whose rum titted broads
floating lit spackle tracksuited tumble
off the dock downward laughter travels
across a calm water fin chanting
blousy big hard chorus
pennies fall out of our nostrils
for quarters make a dollar

so then sweet caroline puts her child to bed
flooded bug hands are travelling from
kimmie's mom through lucy's middle
boaters have an early morning and
juniper seems to titillate garish bedtime fables
a chipped teethed paste sandy
time cuts a pass slower
than the waitress is serving
but liquor is cheap

24 hours shoots messy
trigonometric art over homeplate
wheeling a travelling saviour clipping
coupons 2 for 1 happy shattered
hamboned puppy hour damned pirates at
the bar going aaarrrgh like movies
bandanas created if a ship of fragile
maidens and saltpeter
lemonade by the cup...

and i love her stillness moving
and i love her moving stillness
despite patterns of cavernous shortcomings
the trust we have in strangers