Monday, August 25, 2014

Domesticated creatures

A gender-bender demon Cinderella in a Japanese manga
cleans and hurts and begs his master for more work,
but the constant servitude is a cry to belong: to become indispensable
to become a thing needed and hope that a thing needed
is also a thing wanted.

For a Prince to domesticate a Fox, a creature that belongs only to itself
is to turn it into something that depends on you and hopes
that you need it forever and it is forever a thing wanted


And who will keep the fox? Who will keep the demon?
The Prince and the master
Entangled forever with their creatures:
unaffected by distance or space
You are entangled with me like these tamed things and
my heart
is no longer entirely
my own.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Exhaustion

Silken cotton gray falls over my eyes
as I walk, lead footed (more like a trudge),
knowing I've got to keep on, there's nothing for it,
black endless cups of hot coffee push nothing back
because it's soaked through and through

A night's rest? Yes, please.
I want the stars to dance across my eyelids,
geometric rainbows lulling me into deep sleep
that I'll slip out of only when I'm ready to surface.

Monday, August 18, 2014

Animated Horrific Leaves

I remixed a version of the Horrific Leaves Poem using the Mozilla Thimble Engine.

Note: It only seems to work in the FireFox browser.

You can see the remix here: https://megalibrarygirl.makes.org/thimble/LTExODkyODE1MzY=/mozfest-poetry-180-animate