crickets catch
footsteps
my lifeline falls
like petals
a barrage of ponchos
drove mommy out of the foxholes
Jesus in my kitchen
pounds the shells
you fortune-flower,
good-luck zinnia-girl
Improv. 2 (Hellenic)
seen thru
Delphic mirror
shimmering fingers
spool vapor
sky of sea
sun-gulls
swooping the surface of
possible lips
scatter their
charisma of cries
Improv.3 (Genesis)
garden chimera
of golden vein
Eden devoured
fear uncurling
sixty bridges
singing in wind
starry footprint
re
treat
ing
re
verb
er
a
tion
Improv.5 (For Evy)
my freckled mate
I don my drool suit and clown cleats
not merely to frisk your high school
chassis
but to smell the Brooklyn blood smoke
taste the family candy
sing me those rip-rap blues
and baste some simperfish
O avocado mine
rub the mudblind
from my subway glass
and dunk my dandelion
Improv.6 (Threat)
circles of chatter
words unsafe
Dada's monkeys trampoline
keyboards
Shiva serves stoneware mugs
of green Babylon seltzer
seaweed photos
of the obscene biosphere
assault pastel moods
in your opaque sedans
Improv.7 (Romance)
Homer's gutter pulpit
is a mosque of sultan glass
feathered antennae
dipped in Gorgon's blood
tear open Sistine sky
eggshell jalapeno mirth
shatters Cronos' baked lips
sirens topple megaliths
loft the divine banner
past cusp of harvest moon
Pegasus' triple mane
Byzantine quicksilver
flows on starry faience
lion and serpent
left this crimson egg
tooth of gnosis
well of Greek fire
Improv.8 (Bananas)
maracas on A-deck
sloppy-joes fruging
real tennis debs
cuba libra, pommes flambeaux
viva samba!
hibiscus taxi
marimba courtyard
flamboyance
bistro parakeets
bon voyage, slinky
Improv.9 (Snapbean Sonnet)
Kodak parrot
totem of inky lightbox
tufted osprey in phlox helmet
carouses on coriander
rock herring at the Hippodrome
Judas drones Diogenes' dilemma
from garrulous vellum
below the mute surface
his luminous blood
flows to Guyana
on the gulf stream
Improv.10 (As Toulouse Lautrec)
through folded fire
a passionate gargoyle
ascends the mouse throne
seeking its aureole
cherishes fruit du jour
desire's plums
sprinkles saffron
rakes embers
trying to revive
a tin-cup Kerouac
Improv.11 (Deja-You)
strollers sport gold shades
a hurdy-gurdy pipes belly-jazz
for mirthful saints
Florida goddess
creamy tart
in cubist tiara
at Hotel Chagall
whipped mangoes
in frosty glass
exotic tide,
brass coral
Celtic beryl,
Elusinian ebony
then you hear a chime
familiar as entr'act
in a Paris theater
put on your circus shoes
step into the whirlpool,
sing out
those reincarnation blues
Improv.12 (Penelope)
of lost Odysseus heather whispers
screen on her chiaroscuro gown
drowned by
pipes and timbrels
foghorn locust
weave her twine corset
Improv.13 (Sonata)
ice-goddess encodes
a virtual trousseau
hermetic justice
in needlepoint tempo
under cloud ships
through green lens
eternal
glacier
of stars
© Copyright 2-2-97 Martin A. Abramson. All rights reserved.
© Copyright 2-2-97 Martin A. Abramson. All rights reserved.