Barometric Drop

Watching the tornado
Swirling, whirling,
Around your fragile
Window
Hearing the sound,
The warning,
Out of my power
To pull back,
Change course,
Shuttering against
Winds
Rattling your spirit,
Releasing a siren,
Invoking a miracle
From benevolent clouds
For the phoenix
In you
To rise
Unscathed
From the debris



Based on We Write Poems Prompt 195, Weather Report

january freeze

Derek will die on the street tonight;

 in the end, it will most likely be the cold that gets him,

but Derek will die on the street tonight.

he gave the finger to the day shelter lady

"I ain't no one's problem - just my own."

and looking to score some H 

goes out into the cold

and Derek will die on the street tonight

slush-shuffled until slush was ice

and spittle-freeze river 

made a chin-glacier knife

but freezing to death 

while looking to score some H 

is better than your heart bursting open 

all over your plate.

so Derek will die on the street tonight

I watched him shuffle with frost-bit toes 

and shuffle ragged, shuffle slow.

going to sit down under the stairs by the levee

where Derek would die on the street tonight.

but I know you all have it hard

because your heating bill is high

and you got aches and pains and you don't know why,

and little Justin is getting a "C" in math

so we all have it hard.

and lots of folks make choices.

and that, my friends, is why

Derek will die on the street tonight.

Flash in the Hubble

Another portal gone
Unnoticed,
Rid of,
Relief from the dejected
Antediluvian
Time-dilation,
Alternate life
Staring across
Another universe
Beguiled
By the sparkling,
Red-hot
Nano-second
Begetting
Neoteric
Dimensional promises




Based on We Write Poems Prompt #194, Happy New Year

OTC, mostly

a bent-faced little daydream

and the old man snortin' cheese

bloody on the underside

muddy on the knees

“no one sells for less”

I seen it on TV

I seen it on the street

get behind me when I talk to you

don't make me repeat

take a box

and a can

and a smack-mouth treat

I seen it on TV

I seen it on the street

when a bent-faced daydream

gets all short

and the box

and the can

and a holy-water h-bomb

starter kit court

“no one sells for less”

I seen it on TV

I seen it on the street

get behind me when I talk to you

don't make me repeat

and the little ragged muffinman

hanging high on 6^th avenue

look at that

look at that

look at his eyes

he got that bleeding dreamsmell

going on inside

but its okay, little molly lady,

no one sells for less

and little molly lady

sweaty pilly-sweater shufflemouse

hanging sad behind the

mustache man

“no one sells for less”

I seen it on TV

I seen it on the street

get behind me when I talk to you

don't make me repeat

but now that bent-faced little daydream

and that old man snortin' cheese

bloody on the underside

bloody on his knees

the starter kit opened

the starter kit closed

and when a bent-faced daydream

gets all short

and it gets all of those

and the box

and the can

and the cheese

and the cheese

and a holy-water h-bomb

starter kit, please

bloody on the underside

bloody on his knees

bloody on the lips

and bloody on the cheese

“no one sells for less”

I seen it on TV

I seen it on the street

I seen it everywhere

don't make me repeat

hey Steve, you okay?

Steve?