Posts Tagged ‘shape’
Haiku #8
08
07 2009
The Bagel of Love
My love for you’s a circle
a never-ending ring
As soon as I complete it
I start circling again
Before long I get dizzy
and back and forth I sway
But still I keep on loving you
until I can’t see straight
At some point I get spin-sick
start hacking up a lung
I black out then come to face down
in half-digested onion
Yet I know it’s all worth it
for you’re my favorite thing
I’ll shower off then get right back
to loving you again
07
04 2009
high rise
steaming stack
of onion bagels
towering toward
the sky
your scope
is stirring
your highness
is humbling
your aroma
arouses all
i think you are quite an erection
i think you are quite an erection
04
04 2009
Observing the Slow-Motion Fall of a Bagel Into a Pool of Milk
rotating, arcing
against a void, a blankness
a wall
its shiny skin
reflecting light
from a bulb
bending it, turning it
now it is soft
now it is still soft
and now
it is harsher
that bulb must be
a thousand watts
of hot
white
white
and now it is gone
and the light brown circle now oval now circle again is about to reach the surface it is a circle it is an oval and we hold our breath in anticipation
splash!
curving walls of white snake up snake down the ring tosses tilts and tosses some more
but now it rests it floats and a thousand tiny ripples run out from it run away from it
they run until they are gone forever like so many onion-soaked dreams we once had
and now it is gone
and the light brown circle now oval now circle again is about to reach the surface it is a circle it is an oval and we hold our breath in anticipation
splash!
curving walls of white snake up snake down the ring tosses tilts and tosses some more
but now it rests it floats and a thousand tiny ripples run out from it run away from it
they run until they are gone forever like so many onion-soaked dreams we once had
