J. Delayne Ryms
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We keep sleeping
Under blue down, purpling.
Others call, intrusions.
Who could want us?
Mornings bruise in like
Blindness
You root behind
Me, nudging and nudging.
Soon I will creep over the edge
To feed my slim hope.
My new pills
Flutter off the sheets.
I net the sluggish butterflies, one
By one in the grass-
Green room.
They will better me, flying
Dr. says soon, fizz.
Truth is: this chill drugs the
Singing frogs and
Goslings.
I will pile my porous bones
Into the cold, slow
Chair.
(For years I have dulled
under creek-fog
Like a catch and release,
I slipped thru waves)
The hours have not condoned
my inertias, escapes
Stamen, seed, spore
Still urgent
Clamber for deciduous flesh.
Torus, I
Swallow so much.
You snooze.
We turn, briar hips.
We are entangled with bees.
How long can you unfurl my hooded
Lips, inflorescence
Plumping
Up calyx, corpels
Mists of latex?
(I may substantiate
myself, red-mouthed
clever, I
answer the phone, plan something
with someone
then fin away, outcast again
before next week)
Chemistry has conjured cocktails
cure-alls, belladonnas
The brain I will depend on
sparks eagerly
You curl me with the same grip
Even in my absence.
I ooze, croon, slogging
From little suicides to our
Mop-headed son.
He’s in a mood too.
Some days he needs his mother-
Crone
Acrimoniously
Blood for breakfast.
Afterward I may slump off
To brood, meet the
Yellow bus by afternoon.
The pills look so small, groggy
Indeterminate as moths.
Soon
You will recover me.