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.
COMMON AND GARDEN DRAGONS
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Wild green and great blue ivy hearts tangled around this tree.
ReplyDeleteI want to be in this garden, right now, reading a novel.
ReplyDeleteI never get to read novels anymore. Pity pity pity.
me neither. i just read music and gothic architecture and jazzlaw.
ReplyDeletean open question:
ReplyDeletedo you judge people who write bad poetry?
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.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm more inclined to like good poets.
sometimes to become good you have to bad first.
ReplyDeletei 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!
be bad*
ReplyDeletecase in point.
"... Smash the computers!
ReplyDeleteand so we lived. the end."
-birthday poem from Tala.
Sounds like these are prize winning snapdragons we are talking about
ReplyDeleteI 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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