Last updated on November 14, 2023
words by barbara doduk
3.
and
melancholy flowers droop
vase edges
stuck on empty ledges
flowered
over bloom
the pedals weep
and bleed gloom
brown patch
purple glow of perfume stench
killed by love
and loving to be dead
in all the lies he said
and
winter washing in
over snow bleak bitter clouds
after the autumn rush
drags long way down
splinter needs
aspirations gleam
in Frosty’s coal eyes
carrot cake code
over the Grinch’s green grin of hate
kills me
eats at me
and
April springs new a rose
and love spreads
take another piece of me
over and fried
saturated in the sinking sickness
known
and unknown
puzzled over pieces not fitting
pictures
plod
questions quizzical
ramble
rustle
around my mind
and
embryo egg
hatching
new horizons
blue colliding kaleidoscope
dreams swirl over
the red simple
mislead tangle
dizzying ride
fantastic world of drug love
covering clover
grass grazing lows
high hills over the yellow valley parades below
and
there’s no light tunnelled in dark hallow ends
meeting the colossal universal worm hole
inside
outside
the timbers fall
crack
groan
mowed down
denim Jean flightless bird
patched blanket
tumble in the seeds
and
it lasts ever into dreams
flashing images
tattooed little memories
etched in flesh ink
black ribbon
like sun spot blindness
eclipsing me
leaving me alone
free
unrestrained
with the ends left loose
never spoken a good-bye,