You are the ice storm of my heart
and I dodge your rattling branches
as gusts of vicious wind fling me
into the maelstrom of your desire
and someday I shall slip upon your sidewalks
and shake my fist at the recklessness of your drivers
as you cover everything with diamonds
that are really quite annoying for several days afterwards
The Scent of Cinnamon
You are the scent of cinnamon
you sultry wrench
the wrong word of all wrong words
BREAK
oh my diamond
LOSE
oh my porcupine
you are the end of the Imogens
the reason for the existence
of the ukulele
the ukulele
of doom
Sporadic
The poems
are
sporadic
are
sporadic
are
not in the
right place
right
time
the
poems are
sporadic
are sporadic
are
nomadic
into sporads peering
sporaticus
to
the
end
of
the
poem
You Are Knocking on My
you are knocking on my
and you are stealing the
from the
and when your
into the
you ask
does it
does it
does it
why does it
how does it
and then
and she
and no one
after the end of the
Life Is a Series of Doorways, and That’s Important
You keep choosing the wrong doorways
even though you should really know better
and we are just standing here watching you do it
and everybody is pointing and laughing
since it’s very clear to everyone but you
that you should have taken the left doorway seventeen years ago
but you chose the one on the right
and ever since then
your life has been a series of increasingly wrong decisions
so good luck with everything
as I hope you are aware
that none of your choices can ever be right
Triangular
One is for the puppets
hanging by their strings
Two is for the driveways
without cars in them
Three is for the pineapple
of course
Now let’s
get started
Into the Sparkling Darkness
We are puzzled by
the darkness sparkles
but willing to accept them
for the sake
of the metaphor
Mother of Dinglehoppers
I am the Mother of Dinglehoppers
and I and my dinglehoppers
will take the throne
because of destiny
and because this
is the dinglehopper way
so cower
mortals
cower
before me
and my dinglehoppers
and your destiny
may be almost as awesome
as ours
The Fun Bit Is Yet to Come
The fun bit is yet to come
after the hard bit
and the scary bit
and the bit with the screaming and the running and Michelle hiding in the outhouse with the axe
but the fun bit will happen
yes it will
and the other bits
will all have been worth it
Terrible
I am terrible at everything
especially at writing this haiku
which has way too many syllables
and an extra line