04-02-2019, 10:19 PM
Molting Up
Feathers fall up, insubstantial, pink,
soft spines hollow, fairy-tinted
by lean reddish brine shrimp blood;
falling bubbles met at mirror-boundary
stick, floating just below eye-level.
Point of view is everything–
looking at one’s own feet planted
up above in sandy overhead,
as one sucks sapphire ocean in
through whalebone-whisker teeth.
Ostriches hide heads in sand
for fear of seeing or of being seen;
pink flamingoes headstand in the Keys,
straining shrimp, pink feathers floating
seaward, falling up to waiting waves.
Feathers fall up, insubstantial, pink,
soft spines hollow, fairy-tinted
by lean reddish brine shrimp blood;
falling bubbles met at mirror-boundary
stick, floating just below eye-level.
Point of view is everything–
looking at one’s own feet planted
up above in sandy overhead,
as one sucks sapphire ocean in
through whalebone-whisker teeth.
Ostriches hide heads in sand
for fear of seeing or of being seen;
pink flamingoes headstand in the Keys,
straining shrimp, pink feathers floating
seaward, falling up to waiting waves.
Non-practicing atheist