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Author's Inkwell
Letter of Admiration
Posted By: Derek
Date: Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 9:02 a.m.
These crumpled poems samba and salsa in your forever slap dash, along with Squinty eyes, clapping oak tree branches, dandelion spirits
I hide in my skin when you address the winter and
Sigh relief when you breach summers sticky haze
Spinning bird gods danced their heels into callouses for you
For who else mops the dust bunnies of worlds passed?
Of all the artists who sculpt the mountains proud rock
You are the most subtle and patient
Your ocean is one in which fish flop and birds swim
Children dance reverie for your parlor tricks and
Your playfulness…
Leave my hair alone!
I’m not fooled by what seems innocent or
Mystified by your simplicity
If something is given it must be taken back
Take up these wilting orchids and esquire them to the mountains to ferment Whisk my styrofoam soul to Europa's moonwater calm
Set the pages of this yellowed novel in motion; a fluttering butterfly
But I know as you push the child's summer sailboat
Bobbing its cherry underside in the fountain waters “ahhhhh”
That it could be an ocean liner
It's gargoyle steel bottom bobbing, belly full with your admirers
And they are flung about just as effortlessly
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- Letter of Admiration
Derek -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 9:02 a.m.
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