Monday, September 14, 2009

THE FORTEAN OCTOPUS HEALED

The ostrich and hyena pull my plow

over a seething landscape

dripping with the blood of fresh petunias,

the amber fluid from the otter’s lobe.

Not yoked;

they would not tolerate

such slivered fasts

and monkish dripping eyes.

They ran through the sea of hands,

applauding, pickled fingers,

aureoles of all the flying cats

with purple tongues entangled

in the silver web

of conundrum.

I never sought to turn

such fertile wonder

into grey and ebbing fossils

clicking softly through the tepid afternoon.

What dreams may come

will never be for corpses

or the dreary ghosts

who wail and whine

the losses of pathetic mice.

Indeed, we dance as in the limpid wine

of majestic octopi

who squirt serial intoxication

through the eyes of grand delinquents,

those whose quaking crimes

send the quivering teeth of sharks

into the entrails of a cop.

What serial delights!

A feast upon the squirming tentacles of joy,

a wild debauch

that flows majestic

like the river of mad eyes,

the febrile horn of otter heat

and my own beloved owl’s libido.

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