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Fish Pirate's Daughter--from The Alaska Poems

5/31/2013

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even in Alaska gray skies you shine

            mostly because yr hair’s sparklets chortle sun puddles

            as in yr cheeks as yr father called you

            as in this metaphor passing strongly solipsistic

into my eyes yr good un-eye patched eye flees

            promptly into my brain’s convoluted juice globs

            theorized softly as soliloquies, sprinkling

            passions like the seasons, bigger than spruce trees

gripping truly, as an octopus grips

            believing the scenery of yr good eye grips

            mine (cushioning body slips to beanbag

            posture) sleeping as we here on this giraffe’s hips

me to the periphery nearer rented bars, unraveling

twice now falling, falling as berries we picked

w/ Aunt Betsy adhering even now to my teeth

            lay us down now       go to sleep

I say nightly, nightly you cry as

            I shd have left you already you said

            you said “arr g’bah” as lovely as you new speak

            elaborating further as I make rapid-eye sleep

even in Alaska these gray skies I lick shine

            because the voice of yr hair sparkles kindly

            & yr cheeks freckle smiles

            you metaphor buckling through chorus (surface)

liquid you blanket me, entirely, brightly

            w/o reason I gather you like berries

            aiming to heft you (& yr good eye) when time arrives

            weaving towels of yr hair

dry me to shine me anchored increasingly

liquid you blanket me beside asphalted whale road

            totems of ourselves wrapped w/ selves

            guts wound rewound shells

explain the effectiveness     shells

            explain the profound beauty of mountains jutting sea

            explain the ravens the eagles the sea gulls

explain the always sun to shine ever anchored evermore

explain snakeskin ha por nada

sprinkling passions fleeting seasons bigger than gray Alaska yr eyes frontier

           

                        what could be wider than white?  wiping wide whiteness from withdrawn witnesses w/o wanting, winning, nor whining; witholding weariness w/ whimsy; walloping wahoo worries w/ waxing hours Monday walking one-way, weening another: waking today once we meet cold feet exposed from the bottoms of blankets; you’re [yes, correct “you are”] hair wet from anti-dandruff shampoo.  You’re wearing a skirt for free I found for you;

“Ahoy, I miss thee wanna lay me head in yr lap immediately, sissy.”

Yr steps always one ahead, save when you allow me to pass narrow planks                                                    w/ an after you, mate—

                        Yeah, yes thanks.

Alaska gray skies, islands rising into cloudsmoke

recall moonrings abated w/ yr sail home

passed out tipsy

halibut named Henrietta you fancied

does the same: thinking you this (this) day, my dear, this everyday

 living inside you Jonah-like inside Godfish

maintaining constant flashings, future flickerings, slight cloudlings living alive— 

Yea, alas.  Alaska marble globs of rain soaking me fine—me wearing yr underwear like Tuesday’s scabbard.

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