COMMON AND GARDEN DRAGONS

Your grandmother tells you that
the common and garden dragons are
nothing to fear; feed them tea and a bit of meat-
bacon, or perhaps ham- on a stick, and they become
quite tame. It is the wild green dragon and the
great blue dragon that are dangerous.

And you dream of swashbuckling,
heroics; I dreamed once I was Wendy
Darling, swimming in murky blue beneath
a pirate ship. Your eyes grow vivid and
your teeth fight hideous cities through
invisible lantern light; you have
rescued me on
several occasions.

Summers pass, in which
we tame two or three garden dragons;
one was a little pink-eyed female and she
mistook your thumb for a bit of meat, on a
stick. You yelled and bled, and another
yellow scuttling dragon flamed a little
in the herb bed. I dreamed I flew through
a murky blue sky above the lagoon on
Never Never Island; to bandage your hand
would make me shiver.

10 comments:

  1. Wild green and great blue ivy hearts tangled around this tree.

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  2. I want to be in this garden, right now, reading a novel.

    I never get to read novels anymore. Pity pity pity.

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  3. me neither. i just read music and gothic architecture and jazzlaw.

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  4. an open question:
    do you judge people who write bad poetry?

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  5. Unless it's that kind of bad that actively chooses to be terrible, evidence of a twisted and muttering soul that hasn't a clue what is nice, classy, or beautiful, I just assume they haven't had the benefits of proper critique.

    But I'm more inclined to like good poets.

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  6. sometimes to become good you have to bad first.

    i am rather inclined to replace "sometimes" with "always."

    therefore, i hope in all things to welcome judgment. it's still a hope, not at all close to a reality. but soldier on, i say!

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  7. "... Smash the computers!
    and so we lived. the end."

    -birthday poem from Tala.

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  8. Sounds like these are prize winning snapdragons we are talking about

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  9. I sent this poem to Nuuro, and he's going to be putting it to music. I'll let you guys know when this occurs because I know you will be excited for me as I am for myself.

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