Poems

Calico Sky At 5:45

dusk defying

calico sky at 5:45

& I couldn’t keep my eyes off it

I had to see it change

watch the pinks pulled through the cirrus

sipped through straws

at the speed of light

then swallowed by the setting sun

& the blue fade to grey

gris grey leaving only gristle

e b o n y

finally

midnight

darkness

streetlamp spotted islands

hazy neon fuzzs

soaking up the nothingness

trying to make some sense of it all

staring

sorta silent fake inertia

a coltrane-induced coma

it’s only me

holding down the fort

finger in the dyke

till the treat twreet

cheup cheurp

& the pinks peek over the other side

intensifying

c l a r i f y i n g

i’m tired

bandanbladder buldge

drags me to my feet

gotta find relief

maybe splief spleef

focus pocus

pimlico

apartheid

i’m so tired