Eight Acts In Reverse(or Eye Got Lotsa Shorties)

1.

Jeweled-eye fire
Searching the narrow path,
Burning to learn
New angles of
The Lovers' Math.

2.

Still,
One red blossom
Lingers secretly
Above my garden-
Sits lit
Like a lantern
Slipped
To whisper
Its vesper
Vermilion.

3.

Rooftop
Morning
Smoke
With
Oakland
Crows
After
Sleeping
On the couch
With a pit bull
Named
Cinnamon.

4.

Every
Day
The
Universe
Sends
Messages
And
Signs.
Just open your eyes-
You'll be surprised
To find what
You read
Between
The lines.

5.

Go where you are received,
Go where you are believed,
Go where the Ace of Spades
Is the heart worn up your sleeve-
With all its illustrations,
With all its steady beats-
It takes a certain sail
To carry you
Through these seas.

6.

We are the same-
The Sun
And I-
Constantly
We meet.
I, a son
Born flamed
As well,
And in us both
Desires
Swell
To
Search
You
Through
With
Heat.

7.

A hunger for disappearance,
My little universe tantrum,
My ego interference,
Dig my pocket for a lantern
In the shadows of my grievance.
Under half-moon.
Having slept in death's orgy,
I wander in my bloody uniform-
A dancing detective story
Full of forgetting and remembering.
With each itch and scratch,
I'm leaning into everything.

8.

Last lunar cycle's new room:
It's the snake dance to shed old skin,
Being tailored for the new definition's dream coat-
A letting go,
A surrender
To remember.
Meeting with the shadows,
Wrestling with reflections,
Secret singing,
Desire's deep blue fires
Bringing-
Molten wings
Feathers molting-
This prickly nest
Filled
With golden guessing,
A gambler undressing
In the dark
Betting on sparks of Yes,
Travels through the underworld
With fists uncurled-
Divinity's advance placement test
Then returned as guest.