Drawing by Judith Wolfe

Jonathan Marinus /

Poem



      "My Sweetness...."

      Darty and flickery your violet dress flutters
      Mingly jingly with the grass
      Wispy and wistful
      Careftee at last

      We give silly shapes to the clouds
      Frothing and foaming a bubblebath
      Shifting and swapping place
      Queueing for the horizon
      A missed morsel on the grinning sky-chin

      I love you truly, my beauty my sweetness my queen,
      Let's flee with glee
      Sail and wade this grassy sea
      This really tall elephant field
      This big nothing of green
      My sweetness my queen

      A bushy woody shack lies less a kay away,
      Its rustic busted boarded veranda,
      Hairy with ivy,
      And nested with hay

      But between this big nothing of green,
      And that bushy woody shack,
      Rushes a river well-seen

      We stand by the water, gazy dazy hazy unsure,
      Fearing the swirling currents of passion,
      Separating us and the shore
      We cannot cross without a swim

      Let us go, then, you and I,
      Brave these waves
      Splash them break them!
      Remember ...

      A bushy woody shack lies less a kay away,
      Its rustic busted boarded veranda,
      Hairy with ivy,
      And nested with hay.


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