wire flowers

I'm overwhelmed by tenderness for these little wire flowers I was just given
their undersides look like pine cones
i'm enjoying my stinkyfeet smell which is rolling around on the floor gleefully like a dog
smells like two day old sticky sandwich just unwrapped paper all vidalia 
as impressions of people I love float to the surface like vegetables in a soup

branch

I think a thick branch has been growing out of my chest
you seem imminently touchable as though

time hate distance could be folded in two and there would be nothing between us


I'm standing in a green haze of light and there are these people standing there yelling
at me, holding spoons, shaking them
my mother, her face shocked as though I unplugged her and coiling like a dying thing

you
your arms folded
you stubbornly invisible as air even though i am involved with you
even as I push you out in suck you through my teeth my guts lined with you rubbing your back thickly against them


time is a triangle I am sliding down


my heart is a stringy juice dripping fruit

penduluming in air

hideous fat sweet

my skin bulges with it

hot heart


blisters my body from the inside


on the other side you are walking somewhere calmly
through woods on a clear day
holding your right decision like an attache case beside you

A beautiful party dress

Last night wore a beautiful party dress
wished to feel like piece of cotton drifting easily through the brownish lampish air
over the bowl of garlic pesto thingthing

I was not a piece of cotton but did feel sort of like some luxurious animal with careless fur

tried to adjust hair alluringly over shoulder
bone straw girl with puddle eyes leaned on to me
screaming you're a tiger! a Tiger!!!
her body looked sort of like a fork someone bored was trying to balance on end

 friends and people I sort of know looked pretty and like little ornaments in their cocktail wear
or maybe they looked like a carousel
colorful close together and rotating by

someone serious with a blueish glow 
someone tall    lamplike

the whole night my heart was so elegant and far

my heart was a little silver box
not a jewelery box, but a tiny box with blue velvet lining that can only hold one special thing

necklace for special occasions.
wedding ring
handful of baby teeth


really old air