fiction
diary of the Morphos
i.
pale lemon yellow
pressing insistently through layers of transluscent netting
gaunt orange halo
sulfurous mounds glowing,
a milky adagio
BLACK EYE
white pupil
luminous orb
recede
eclipse,
fade
lettuce edged whispers
CLOSER
pulsing
blue-rimmed and vibrating
lunar maria beckon like google maps
fiery corona
cobalt halo
between black amd white
(hallucinated angels
at the split second
of a knife’s curve
mushrooming over the bay winds
pull slk taught around your legs;
bony femurs
the orphic glass is obsidian in motion.
s l o w a r i a s
pale wists of cirrus flee
at nauseating velocity
ii.
sheet of rippling sapphire
serene tonight
no gaunt loomers
no gathering haunts
just crushed sapphire;
dusty, fluid dunes.
see it fade. see it hang.
moonlight whistling
through my hollow bones
(eels of breath
& i a flute).
iii.
lightbugs bustlling
the horizon bobs, flickers.
a gray town.
a blue boat.
iv.
redredredredred black
dark gray fuzz.
cerulean swath. gray
whiteclear wide black
greenstack star rise
feel it. rippling orange on slate.
slow yellow double-eyes cutting
darkness. yellow double-eye. rippling lemon on blue slate. orange square divided.
pale haze pressing upward, disssipate.
7 white flecks on cerulean. spacious clear.
vast, vast spacious clear.
invisible motion; felt. microbreaths
from the north east. gaunt loomer.
black-purple gathering. wooly. fear.
small row of pale blues; slow red double-eye.
fast red double-eye.
white flecks whirling. pleiades.
delicate apparitions.
strange blackness, dimensional and in motion.
toward you infinities.
wooly. fear. danger.
cirrus, mild and distant.
a welcome etherality.
black sapphire dust;
residue of jewels