A poem by Ajax Minor

Icy heart of a hoary Moon

Wringed by a wristlet

Of Fire.

 

Razor Wire. Doomed Desire?

Short lived, short armed, long reached Lavender month.

Tongue of barbed steel. Cleaving the fat months, shredding the years. Razor reckage.

 

Yellow month, summer Sun.

Hot heart, Boreal breath.

Wringed by a frozen crown, showering fine flakes of Purple Ice.

 

My fat fingers, busy bugs, scrabble scorching sand for shards

Of Lavender, nicked from a frosty Moon.

Stubby, clumsy clumps of fleisch scrape the surface. To sieve and mine.

 

And Mine? She’s her own alone. Sun yellow, calico.

Hot hair, Lavender eyes. Icy Iris.

A Queen guarded jealously by a swarm

 

That buzzes in alarm

At my pale gaze. Lukewarm.

Luke: And they were sore afraid. Not She.

 

Shedding horny hides for thick scales, humming swarm a slurping school

Churning now, a slick wring circling Her, herding Her

Toward the Lake.

 

I’d follow, but my Heart

Would freeze them in a clump like canned sardines

Or Boil

 

Off the lake water, leaving them screaming

Like Lobsters

She alone stands her Sand, her patch of Beach.

 

She alone melts memories with a swift look.

Lavender shards. Purple crumbs.

The trick to snatch them up and stuff

 

THEM in an empty pocket BEFORE

They melt. ALL LIQUID.

The pocket’s a hole in it, anyway.

 

© Paul Sinsar 2015