like lolita deflowered; petals picked and teeth red as roses --
the honeycomb melts from your mouth
and i take a glance, catch it spinning on that grin
and i tie cherry knots with my tongue (i do).i take those tiny white feathers from the daisy chains
of when i was a child.
i catch life over my shoulder in glimmering cuts:i am not fresh shoot green anymore
but find a tinge of my child hues
in an infant smile in a garden:
the buttery yellows of our throats
and green of our knee joints knocking
like knuckles on the door of home.(14/08/2017)
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THE OCEAN
Poetry'In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and...