FACE CARDS

FACE CARDS


the old
Queen of Spleens
will not . allow her
legions . to ask
'Why?'

so
the Jester,
Deuce of Hearts,
asked, 'How come?'

d oo m
set in

NEH, 2007

she had an electric heart

she had an electric heart
blood valves which with minor pumps & spurts
let loose venomous wattage of shocks profuse

the sky knew her demands
vocal chords emptied hatred coupled longing
confusion eaten whole in a shrieked disbelief

trees broke in her conquests
she shoved a catapult in a canon & aimed it at herself
crashed with more wrath than jubilant eggs trapped in a piñata

she had an electric heart
which no one feared
save her own breast

NEH, 2007.

An Island, Full Of, Our Universe

...
You feel already caught in fall'
Grassysounds of ear'close windbreaths
Sheltered sight, bowing into our curve'd dusklit shore

Rise toward, from the ground, in the morning, to our island
Softening brisks, finding our looks, by the noontime, 'round our castle
Touchable chins, shaking sweet stops, in the evening, under our tangling hair

We think, of ourselves, as a wildest rain
We know, of course, our clouds too pass, as phases fade'

The fogs, dampening out windows, in the nighttime, near the kitchen
Our nudity, running rampant, by the morning, throughout the mountianforest
Pleasingly so, our laughs weep together, in the dawning, 'clutching worlds

We were, we thought, a storm, most romantic
We are, in fact, the entire loveable behemoth, that is, the sky'

NEH, 2006

April Fools Day 2009

GO

Fuller than yesterday,
Wiser than tomorrow.
The world saved itself.

Nathan Earl House,

April Fools Day 2009.