No. 8: Story and the large tree

Electric Tree

touch this cracking tree
and die
become an outlet
in the sky

circuit branches
sear the air
they haveth cinders
everywhere


Note:  The phrase "haveth cinders everywhere" in the last line of my poem is my corruption of a famous line in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake *(1939) which alludes to the fact that Joyce's protagonist/world-dreamer, H.C Earwicker (whose dream Finnegan's Wake actually is) is also known as "Here Comes Everybody."   It is also said of him that he "haveth childers (i.e. children) everywhere."   Earwicker's "childers" became my "cinders." 

no.7: Blue Voyage

Schooner

built well
to be

a reciprocity
of slats and boards

set measureless
abreast

to
dip in the sea

to
drift

towards its own gaze 

Number 6: We Cannot See

Sleepless

an electricity
nipping my ankles
keeping me awake

my wrists
are pinched
like links of chain

my ears whistle
loud as hydro lines
in drizzle

it's only 3:30
but I can't pull
the blanket darkness
up over me

everyone around
sleeps like the ocean

I am driftwood
unsupported by cradling
waves 

Number 5: Piles of Pins

Piles of Pins

Mount Fuji
ice cream

an airliner
hovers above it
a hanging refrigerator

this is Japan in the cold
its chrysanthemums snapped
into piles of pins