Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Watering Hole




The stark contrast of
Black and white
Works for them
In the dusty dry brown
Of the savannah
In their herd
They remain strong
Indistinguishable
From on another
And it is mere chance
That one
As opposed to any other
Is singled out
By their predator.

A sea of legs
Shaven and glossed
With body lotion
Three inch spikes
A red pair
A black pair
A silver pair
Short little skirts that hug
Tight little rumps
And tight little tops
That reveal almost
All there is to reveal
They desire so much
To be singled out
Yet remain indistinguishable
To their predator

In the savannah
The lioness paces
Then lies low in the tall grasses
Watching the zebras at the watering hole
It matters not which one she takes down
So long as by the end of the hunt
Her prize is a memory on her tongue
And fills her now empty belly.

The red head, the blond,
The brunette it matters not
Tomorrow he will have conveniently lost
the telephone number
And forgotten the name
But tonight he approaches
Ready to trade the cost of a drink
For her prize.


Saturday, August 4, 2012

Poseidon's Cup

                                                Photograph (c) Clara Wochholz, 2012


It asks nothing of me
Drink or don't
I know I must
Or die of thirst.

It taunts me
as I lay in my cold bed
it is so late; and I,
desperate for sleep,
am invaded; peace stolen
and replaced by distraction
one droplet at a time.

It rushes from its home
upon the high mountain
falling falling
the endless stream
downward into this whorl
Into which I desire to leap
To splash and play
to lose myself and thereby
find what is true.

It calls me from the darkest places,
like wisps of fingery fog,
and that clang clang
from the boats in the harbor
which I love so dearly;
Come down with me, come deeper down
Gulls' cries have only scorn
and the waves beat so certain
like my heart; which cannot be stopped,
Not even when the air in my lungs
has been replaced by liquid death.