Accidental Urbanite

Accidental Urbanite

How to withdraw a gaze

from a landscape carved in neon,

where the moon shines in the gutter and love.

How to withdraw the smile of  words; that

birthplace of something buried, yet shed

but for graveyard conversation

of day breaking bread men and garbage collectors.

How to reverse any kind of sky

into light So flight might linger time

into an outpost of slow

where patience is an elegance

to those in the know.

How to, when electronic words

only tell him their surface

lean his lead into the crystal listening

of her immeasurable water and mind

to spend the week looking downward

as skin traders whisper by fingertips,

Would that she waken to a brothel of the blind,

so the biggest mistakes make of themselves

a high-rise beyond understanding.

How to Injure Friday Immeasurably…

when paranoia and inadequacy intervene.

The title clung to the lap

like a consolation prize; an oblique enumeration

of chiasmus, his disguise.

Not a poet, not an intellectual, but of tar

brick and steel, the heart really thinks its stinks

at subtlety…

An accidental urbanite of a countryside

tackled of its voice; he could not swallow

the breath of its brushed incredible beauty,

only his fear mounted  panic of the

cut-out to leave her intact.  Woken,

he could not return her to where she was before: to

rewind time for her and shore to the good

of cockiness snuffed the note pinned to

her deep and of his leaving: “I am as advertised – shattered.”

Now he could not stay in the room with her mouth

and hear in every phoneme that he wronged her so,

that he should have trusted her. How, that he waters

his never, the shade of scatter in the Sundays of her

that mattered, for if her Bouche were a zip

by the night sky’s  unraveling.

Her well being is God in the waiting.

So my hectic week continues and today my friend @m_blanc_ is guest posting. If you are unfamiliar with her or her poetry blog The Baobab Papers you should check it out soon. She also has some fabulous audio recordings here and an excellent essay here.