The definition of a love knot

One phrase joins and licks at the next

Which is also the start

Of an infinite loop, an unending test

5 am tea in the dark.

As the routine ignites again

I tie up my robe,

forgetful of socks, untrained

To notice my cold.

Swirling love knot patterns

With milk in morning tea

I imagine you touch my forearm,

But it’s just first sunbeams.

Knot winds around to eat its own tail

Please no more dark when morning unveils.

Longear sunfish

Slippery sunfish -

Scaled barbs hook my exposed palms,

You were never mine.

future tense

the person i am,
the person i want to be,
shuffling the deck.

behind the trees

baby rattlesnakes
are more dangerous than grown
hold death, unknowing.

our eyes aren't windows -
glass is just sand and lightning,
waves form in old panes.

mirror

“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.” 
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

witchs

Three girls, lingering

over a park bench

Carving into its wood

Reckless with penknives

laughter and howls

They hold hands, palms slick

The day is hot, palm trees shift

Uneasy, embarrassed by

Their lack of shadow.

Two against one

Suddenly games forgotten

Lips upturned and taunting

Honing in on weakness
They lunge, sick with heat
Shining like wet horses

“Who knows what children fight about”

says an old woman, distant -

the palms shake, wild like tinsel.