Kingdom
In the kingdom,
the open mouths
of flowers
aren’t asking.
*
When you say she’s “gone,”
you mean she’s home.
She’s sheets
Cold
cirrus fingers.
Or she’s expected soon
at the big air-space
gala.
*
In other words,
she speaks
and ruffled yellow throats
trumpet your arrival
at the Courtyard
Marriott
tomorrow
Kingdom 2
“Sharon is Karen.”
I never said that.
I just said,
“Get into the picture.”
*
Phoneme clusters?
These things happen.
*
“Flock together,”
we say,
when we don’t say,
“Opposites attract.”