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  • Fable of Commensalism

    March 14th, 2024

    Our wits have been read,

    And so I instead,

    Have proclaimed,

    Something

    Could be –

    Ran amuck

    So much stuff

    That I can’t puff my

    Chest out

    Like a quarreling dove that can’t see

    It’s mate flew

    To

    Another tree.

    Projections could’ve been in the works,

    Anger undisturbed,

    Never faulted, misunderstood,

    Only to switch up directions,

    Mind-numbing from the scope of attention –

    So that some of those snails

    Crawled into that

    Bag

    From frresshh, the islands you’ve seen,

    Crawled to death,

    Only to be fed,

    A textured bed,

    Of saline.

    In which they could no longer seep

    that sweet sea breeze

    round the lungs

    down to the diaphragm,

    in

    circulation.

    They got trepidatious,

    osmosis despondent on

    some, sort of variation

    scream – shrill – laughter

    thrilled, basqued, and shatter

    in the burn of the heat

    shelled, after the bag

    before the pot

    hits the burner

    of the stove

    no one knows

    why it has an air fryer.

    The snails from the heat

    either lofty after, sweet

    rotting deaths

    determines their necks

    are imploding in-to

    weak

    will-of-course

    so they stop short –

    very few cry,

    all the more time,

    to delight for some

    sharing

    of laughter,

    recant some former morbid banter,

    stay alive, only for a viewing

    of the next course,

    vie to see

    if sea-snail life

    could ever persist

    for a moment longer

    swiftly, not stronger

    on the

    right

    side

    of the

    chopping block,

    served, with a cup of tea.

    Hopefully dismay,

    will keep the snails around to say,

    “Maybe the next course won’t be so salty, eh?.”

    Inspired and sluggish,

    a snail quite;

    grand in gestures, per say

    Was then served on

    a bed of hay;

    the poor man’s

    mattress they say..

    Weevils embedded,

    And so instead did –

    this man decides to eat

    the bed,

    Including all-that – hay. 

    There was snails in his salt,

    in the bag, when he gandered across,

    how? could this be?

    Suddenly daffodils

    fall! from the ceiling

    a massive bonsai tree crashed,

    only revealing

    floral scents of gardenia

    prevailing

    by! like a perfumed breeze.

    Suddenly a mouse caught ten

    Wheels of Cheese -spent!

    There was herbs in those cheeses, you see.

    Say no to pickles, I like

    Olives, no fickle –

    squishy crispy texture

    I can’t understand

    But proclaim to a man

    shot in one hand

    then chooses pickleback for chaser,

    Sour, you chose.

    I’m more briny, verbose

    in scope

    of my

    delectable drinks.

    Withering vanes know,

    I have no chase to go,

    The deers come

    to my front yard

    when it rains.

    If the spirit of adventure,

    is at it

    in lecture,

    I suppose gaia’s green

    earth is dispelling

    claims

    high-narry

    ways

    instead

    of a new set

    of strings.

    archaic and accidental;

    so spoke the mantle,

    that would normally carry one’s

    pair of keys

    venturer sojourn

    blew the car horn –

    every time

    a truck 16

    would pass and he’d

    find another wheel of cheese –

    discus for tongue, you’ve got it all wrong!

    spider recluse?

    browned, of some use,

    are poisonous in threats,

    they’ll eat off your leg

    in one bite

    that punctured,

    with it’s captivating

    pair of incisor teeth.

    Fueled a flame,

    bacteria in vein,

    then caused a knee to lose 3.

    Slow burn, crawl

    enthralled by it all

    a bite

    to note its existence

    and so installed a spider that all

    but found a clock to gawk

    and watch hours slip by in agony

    only for pain

    and stubbed-toe rain dance sway

    at the limp foot

    the ankle that hooks

    to swear

    practice is only for stability.

    But birds

    eat these spiders too.

    Snakes.

    Microbacterium can kill them.

    Probably even the same, found on the moon.

    So, before too soon.

    The dinosaur crawled,

    genetics survailed

    thoughtful heir

    to

    a killer queen

    auntie t-rex

    is pretty spent

    moving jungle trees

    around for a rest

    at least just the neck

    my arms hurt even if they’re tiny.

    She shares.

    Yet she screams

    and she roars

    and sublimates to pass

    a few eternities

    and instead wakes with dread

    she looks to the reflection pool

    only to find a hen,

    staring back,

    auburn locks

    and ivory tips

    that draught! like

    the ultimatum!

    Time becomes slow!

    Because everyone knows

    dinosaurs walked

    so chicken hens reign

    their ingenuity

    enthralls others

    with

    migraines!

    Wicked extension,

    I caught my head suspension,

    teatherd, tattered, and torn,

    I ripped it off myself,

    follicles spelt

    and as my head imploded

    and all that was noted

    a color

    like

    chartreuse.

    Enhanced with green,

    toxicity, slimed!

    beyond capacity,

    where the hell do eggs born of game and search occur

    that the auntie-t rex

    stirred

    for 600

    to say,

    66 million

    years,

    without quick search, a

    guesstimate from the brain

    served as salted hay,

    on a platter, and thus did scatter

    the chicken hen

    that shattered

    when she saw the plastic bin

    of rotisserie

    wins

    and that’s what came after

    the achaeopteryx

    they, flew to the sky

    grew feathers

    said bye

    and suddenly hen is dinner.

    Darwinian dismay,

    golden finches,

    near the bay

    of the

    galapagos.

    Islands once sought,

    if only I had my glasses to see,

    brighter and clearer

    the finches and the cardinals

    neither

    know what it is

    that

    always smells

    so

    much

    like

    amber.

    By then the Canadian flock of 10,

    shows me otherwise,

    geese gone graven, craving

    advice:

    let a silly goose fly.

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