unequivocal unrest

Mortar and brick
sand
Ice water 
autobahn veins
Lightning 
chest 
150 mph 
fingertips 

Lead glass double windows 
burn
flood

blurred
grains
crash

inaudible 
                        
fists white-knuckled
voided

salt and sea life  
disintegrated stone 

nanoscale dunes

gritty toes 
sparkle

© smc, 2019 April

Enigmatic Ellipsis

Cinderella-starved
ruby cobwebs
splintered synapses shriek
gauzy misfirings
fuel someone else
dart gasp gulp dig clasp.

Crucifixion cracks bone marrow grins
as bloodless knuckles 
clench in synch 
with pitted teeth,
exposing snow-capped
cavernous amber coffer, 
this sacred land mine.

Massacred mentality
single-handed 
sun-scorched some day
horizon materializing 
dimmed rays, dampened doom
fairy godmother 
pharmaceutical screenplay.

Threadbare throat
tick-swallow-tock
stroke of somnolent surge
exhale at last as slippered glass
grants breath, 
three hours at best.

Plastic smack of lips
suckle-sputter
handmade quicksand

© smc, 2019 June