Cohesion

I know not how many tiers your fountain.
It proudly stands in the piazza.
All I have is my pitter–patter,
pitter–patter–pit,
softly, gently,
hard to notice —
continually,
till drip and splash
and undulation,
reverberation,
over the edge and overflowing
over every lip.

Stymied

Oh,
drat.
That worst kind of love,
that listeth,
smiles anon,
does not scheme, expect, or devise,
is content merely to be.
Oh, this gets me nowhere,
is too patient,
has nothing to show for itself —
careless:
I cannot leverage you.

Thoreau

I’d go out into the world
 and find that marrow
 I feel in my bones
 must needs be found;
a pause before the gate
 to check
 should there be anything
 upon these grounds
or, maybe, give me time
 as I traipse amid the ants
 between the blades of grass here.
I’m not going anywhere.

Taken

I sing to you, brass belle,
 deep, in your frequency,
 a joyful tone
till two smiling wench’s eyes
 blink knowingly, happily
 back at me.
Enthralled, you open
 your mouth and bless
 the reverberations with ethereal delight.
Us two laughing, broomless witches
 clasp hands in the wind
 and fly.