Newsprinted (poem)

Newsprinted

Feeling journalistic

After the rain

Wanting to splash it out

On the front page

Although no words come

D.O.A.

It’s an obituary

©Expressions by Christine 11.30.16

Transposed (poem)

Transposed

Rewriting

The story

This

Is my alternate ending

©Expressions by Christine 11.27.16

Forest Floor Fusion (poem)

Forest Floor Fusion

What was now is

An assemblage of passage

And aromatic ascent

To winter days

Signaling pleasant sighs

Like the metal lattice floor register

In that old farmhouse

Warming my flannel nightgown

From within

©Expressions by Christine 11.25.16

Petal Scars (poem)

Petal Scars

Tribal sisters

Being in the hippie groove

Garlanding our chromatic thoughts

Like daisy chains

To create ephemeral glyphs
And dance

©Expressions by Christine 11.23.16

Skirting (poem)

Skirting

It must be artful

To build that wall

Crafting strategic stones

In just-right precariousness

Measuring height and depth

Forcing boundaries

Held together

With naked mortar

©Expressions by Christine 11.22.16

Orion's Loss (poem)

Orion’s Loss

Belt buckle explosion

A fortuitous enormity

Creating the starseeds

Of you and I

©Expressions by Christine 11.21.16

Sanctimony (poem)

Sanctimony

Monopolizing the mind

These words and symbols

Religiously stirred

And restirred

A comingling of neural pathways

Creating holy synapses

Of visions and subsequent truths

©Expressions by Christine 11.21.16

Indoctrinate (poem)

Indoctrinate

Born organic

As slate shimmied from earth

She was taught the sacred primer

Dick and Jane sanctimony

Until fisticuffs with holiness

And with the spark of magnetic north

She went round

©Expressions by Christine 11.19.16

Coffee Stimulation (poem)

Coffee Stimulation

It was about morning percolation

Ascending from a warm evening tonic

Being an aphrodisiacal muse

And dripping through your filter

Boundless and fluid

I was everywhere

©Expressions by Christine 11.17.16

Dark Fields (poem)

Dark Fields

Johnnycakes on the griddle

Humming a sizzle

As through the threshold

And down the lane

Light wicks away

Sun-warmed frost

Leaving the mourning of autumn

Heavy with stunted days

And necks humbly bent

In those blackened fields

©Expressions by Christine 11.16.16

Resolute (poem)

Resolute

Contemplating

An alchemic brew of fate

Your sophisticated components

Disguised with the brine

From that pewter cutlery

Triggering a gag

©Expressions by Christine 11.15.16

Mountain Meadows (poem)

Mountain Meadows

Desert dust crying out

For what was

Their dreams

Mere whispers now

Regret and blood

Lost in time

To sheets of rain and tears

©Expressions by Christine 11.13.16

Here and Now (poem)

Here and Now

Every day now

My lungs are green

Each breath full of life
And finding

The enchanted forests

Deep along the path

Of the love

I had hoped for

©Expressions by Christine 11.11.16

On Words (poem)

On Words

Ah

It was not all she wrote

She wrote,

And wrote,

And wrote some more

Such a clever liaison

With a pencil

Bumping and grinding

Between the sheets

©Expressions by Christine 11.8.16

Being with Birds (poem)

Being with Birds

Three breaths to center

Inhaling and exhaling

Alignment and quietude

With winged things

For feathers are transiently

Bristled in breezes

And in the addled sound

Of my curious footfall

©Expressions by Christine 11.7.16

Day (poem)

Day

Up from the pillow

Those casual curves

In the sheets

Heralding daybreak

With a yolk in the sky

Coffee clouds rise

And us

We’re here

©Expressions by Christine 11.5.16

Resemblance (poem)

Resemblance

A crime

Those little girl dreams

Went unnoticed,

Underneath

She was always

There.

Now the wallpaper scraping begins,

Peeling away the layers

Sloughed and exposed

©Expressions by Christine 11.4.16