May Recap
May, when the first crop of wildflowers has been spent, when the heads of hydrangeas rise, holding up the days a little longer. When salt is in the air, and the clouds hoard the heat as they prepare for storms. May is the precursor for summer, for heat, and for fun. To celebrate its contribution to the year, here is a collection of my favorite poems from this month.
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*Trigger warning, Stone and Snakes references SA, poem inspired by Medusa*
Stones and Snakes
The teeth on my windpipe speak truth sinking into my jug-
ular, hemorrhaging confessions,
the vespers I muttered while I polished the marble with my bare body
under his wake, whispering to your statue to take me away.
Snake, you made me a snake,
but I do not hiss and I do not strike.
I stand here, the Sun in my face and the salt in my skin,
the teeth on my windpipe speaking truth
as the fangs sink deeper into the depths of my flesh
venom seeping down my throat hardening me to your wizened glare.
"I will pray for you," the monster says,
because she is the only one made in the goddess's image.
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Pinot Noir
You got an 8$ wine bottle
I have enough troubles to pay it off.
Do you mind if our minds muddle,
it helps me work out my trouble you see rainbows,
I see grays, you give me water,
I don’t have a hangover the next day.
One fish, green fish, blue fish too,
I am getting a crush on you.
Pass me the bottle again
let me drown the truth with tonic and gin,
you see rainbows I see them too,
what about the storm clouds I always knew?
One fish, green fish, phew,
You say you’re in love too.
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Echoes
Death lost all hope of me,
so it sent Darkness,
who comes to reclaim me as its own
as if fetching a hare,
holding my life in its jaws for its Master,
limbs suspended in Time,
reaching out to the flowers that we pass on our journey to the Fields,
where I am deposited back into the earth
like a coin in a vending machine
to dispense my years into another soul,
a hive mind blooms new thought
we are the Earth experiencing
her beauty, fledging and falling
to survey all of her grandeur,
the mountains sees the river
the ocean the desert,
taking it all in until Death and his hounds come for the next phoenix to rise.
I was a tree that traded birdsong
for smoke signals,
and now I rest with my wood rings and fellow fossils,
dreaming as my cells rise again.
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Darwin
Geese don’t know how to serenade and crickets can’t pay bills,
humans curb the instinct to fornicate,
Netflix and chill, with roses and poetry because you know,
talking about pistils and pollination makes us uncomfortable
but when we look into each other’s eyes - we see nothing, entranced, nullified,
pupils black holes consuming laced with longing silence is becoming noticeable - snagging concentration from conversation.
Hummingbirds hearts beat up to 1,260 times per minute,
and swifts can fly for 10 months without landing,
and humans,
they stumble on their feet when they are led to the bedroom blindly by kisses
evolving into a being without rationality
in the sync of instinct and the arms of quiet.
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Dawn and Dusk
Pregnant sunrise burning hot contracting against the pale blue sheets,
consuming birds and cumulus to curb the heat, what day will you bring?
Your mounting radiance snuffing the wish wicked heads of dandelions forecast boy, the hum of cicadas in the shadows of trees threaten girl,
you are padding out of the horizon threshold of Taurus,
planting your heels onto the hands of Gemini, Mother Sun, what will rise in your eyes?
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Thank you so much for going over this month’s recap with me, I am so excited to see what June will inspire. If you would like to read these poems in real time, please feel free to follow my IG @enis.st.sparrow, where I post poems, haikus, and short story snippets. Thank you so much for your support and please comment below what your favorite poem of this little archive was as well, I would love to know!