“Resting on a Cloud”

by

 

With my membrane, I hug the hot

pocket of blackening air 

that circumnavigated this old rock.

 

The hurricanes, the hail

Are the weaving of every tale

Wherein our jelly boned bodies 

Are facing dismayal 

 

Between the stars, I cast my line 

Off a cosmic monorail ride 

And I fish for spider-lily flowers 

In nebula peninsulas for hours

 

The bite of a lotus

Tugs like a starved sea bass.

Tricked by my lure,

I produce a fish from heated gas 

 

The fish wriggles in my plasmo-hands

And grasps for phasmo-friends

In an ambience of interstellar consciousness

Love, hearts, love again 

Searching for the deity within

 

Floating like an embryo

In this mystic Sundance 

On this great eternal eclipse of aging 

Wherein we contemplate mortality 

In front of a seasonal god,

Who visits his harvest

On his own time.