Wednesday, May 24

This is the Story of a Little Rock



Were he the chiseled child of say, the amethyst or jade,
perhaps the little rock would quit smoldering;
Shouldering so impossible a weight
As light as light.
It took near all of the swing the Pacific could bolster
to budge the brooding rock from his reticent state.

Slate swore sore against his silhouette,
Didn't know how to look at that stubborn glint across 
Jade's moony face without swooning.
Didn't know how to even maybe like
The barbed edge of his mother,
That God-awful ashtray gray of his father.
And what of sapphire's serenity?
Men mesmerized by the soul of her cut crystal.

He fantasized mountains and boulders,
Bolder in brawn and height than he.
Behemoths can do big things quickly, I bet.
Probably could stop oceans or
cop light or trick time if they so pleased,
Teased into torture by all that he was not.

Hot shot pearl out the belly of an oyster
Rolled beside our little friend, said

"But it wasn't a mountain David hurled 
To slay Goliath."

ABOUT: If Jehovah can use a small boy with a little stone to kill a giant, just imagine how He can use you.

1 Samuel 17:50- So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; he struck down the Philistine and put him to death, though there was no sword in David's hand.

Monday, May 15

Birth



Six minutes and forty-two seconds into the first
alternate ending, the soft silk slips from its security.

The bang of her body is heard in 6B,
Though mistaken for child's play.

Hypoxia has turned her nail beds blue
But not cold, 
not yet.

Much like the first, the second alternative 
Reveals a burden too great for the pink scarf to carry.

This time there is a loud CRRRT!
The tear mirrors a too familiar failing
Jagged edges of silk glare down at her, as if to ask
"Even now?"

On her way to double-joint the vile cloth, 
The third take glimpses the girl 
With one hand already gripping the closet doorknob.

Seven seconds into the clip,
The microphone picks ups her thudding heart.
(Doosh-doosh...)

A rare ray of light radiates against Genesis 22:10
Etched into the redwood bedpost.

(Doosh-doosh) 

Her beating heart, a bleating lamb.

In the bottom of the fourth, the thought of the noose
Is but a passing storm cloud:
A dark and distant dustpuff dissolving overhead.

The blush boa is still just a means
to keep the bangs out of her eyes.

There is no raging void 
No split silk 
nor knot with which to hang from.
Or not 
Hang from.

The fifth finale divulges 
A wolf cub born smack-dab
Between a rock and a hard place.

ABOUT: It's Mental Illness Awareness Month. This poem is a reminder that there is always another option than suicide.

Postscript: while I think wolves are beautiful creatures that humans can learn from, I do not believe in "spirit animals" in the Shamanistic sense; just thought I needed to clarify my use of symbols.