Poem 434

About someone who everyone loves … not always easy to carry that weight, be the hub everybody else arrays around … so I’m being a little wry about that and amused while also accepting my position in the scheme of things …

( … I really like the blue deeps of love, the stack of four adjectives before edge, and the image of beachcombers living a Robinson Crusoe life on what washes up from her expansive ocean … )

Queen Of All Hearts

Someone fell in love with you
and said cruel things to you
in public
                   well I'm not going to feel sorry
if you will be so attractive
to man woman and beast
all sentient lifeforms on out
you're dragging the oceans round with you
the blue deeps of love
where huge monsters move
bring back the tide
                                      let us basket out the fish of you
of your voices your looks and letters
we'll spend our lives on your rough open ocean beach edge
see we've already made our huts
out of leaves and wreck
we scrape the top layers of your smiles
with our nets