my darling o you dahlia
of my third eye teased and pinked for
that enormous sneeze if I had any serious tigers they'd
growl and purl for you like butter
pumpkins fattening in their patches they'd be smiles wider
than water wheels or baobabs and if I
had my way it would be out of here straight past starship
enterprise to mistress joy and all
her deadly pulsars yes you mix me up and down and out
I go trala my fingers trailing fragrant
flocks of meteors or silky bolts
brighter than entire skies but each of me so animal
we curl into your palm with every pore
a pout until the universe unpicks its seams
and lets all its impossibles

Mix licks & ticks
natures' wick a spade
compost no sorrow
linear wet worm sow bug centipede
corrugate amber
toe by toe:
bite tender
bite hard
bite bliss
fingers in the mud
thumb in the thigh
moon over Buffalo
moon over lay
lay lady, o'lady
lay lady lie.