Melissa Eleftherion's Blog, page 18

Gloria (for Elizabeth Treadwell)

To you in the highest

Comestible sunset

A celestial body outlaw

Close enough to dump material

on that other star

Mad math of the prism

Mother of light

Helios – mouth of the annelid

Of invertebrate starts

Maw of the under beyond

Pineal subways, circulatory systems, sudden moon phases

Pumping vessels flowering ganglia

Gloria, fair

Gloria, olive

Gloria, midnight

Ejecting plasma

(anthologized in Elizabeth’s flash anthology: http://secretmint.blogspot.com/2013/04/gloria-flash-anthology-no-1.html)

Light: NaPoWriMo Day Ten

When light sticks inside bodies

The viscous imaginary

A protective sheath, a plastic coating, a waterfall

 

Orbital schema – an awkward grinding

Grey over buoyant grey, a rainbow scrape

 

When light sticks inside bodies

Bug jelly maths

Porifera make new hydras

Give Zeus the finger

A parthenogenetic hum

stuns the ocean floor

 

Leaves shoot duodenal refuse

A vein of cellular debris

But, to chop it -

A clutch of pearls through the stained glass

A pawing at the branches

 

When light is a family of bones

When light deviates

to hear birds and insects in conversation: napowrimo day nine

Common, common, uncommon

Distinguished from other wrens

Distinguished from the loon

 

The daily biology of the yield

Grey matter on a micro slide

Rub hind legs against

 

Females of a few species produce soft noises

Both pairs of wings sometimes small or absent

Note the inconspicuous jerking of its long tail

 

The song higher

Feeding mainly on bright buffy underparts

Feeding mainly with bright scolding rattles

 

Wings stalked at base

Washed off abdomen

Spend an ocean attached

 

The carapace of haunt

A sound-producing apparatus

Restless, resemble, raptorial hind feet

Archery of a heart plucked back – its steel reverb, Listen.

 

NaPoWriMo Day Eight

I.

There is a fur in making

Scratches markings on its dorsal side

Spins irregular – is disorderly – chances

 

II.

Danger: Keep arms and legs inside

Covers abdomen, swallows pill, depresses tongue

A mother rat after the maternal heart

 

III.

Torn from its parietal (parent)

Sponges and other invertebrates

Stand motionless with pedipalps raised

NaPoWriMo Day Seven

The thin connective tissue a wedding song

Outside, an organism –

Gregarious leaping from branches

            A dull musical hum

 

            All coordinates marry distance

Measure hostility of an old heart

Slowly – a meat snap

 

Asymmetrical

A stitched wedding dress

The heart now feathers for plucking

NaPoWriMo Day Six

 

Gallop, gastrointestinal heart cavity

The ridge just beyond

Horizon membrane

Pink, lavender, blood orange

A disarray of muteds

Lungs, give it all you got

 

*Today, I wrote poems in the bathroom and at the dinner table.  Writing on the weekends is tricky business!

NaPoWriMo Day Five

The body met with an alter of the image of the body

What we see when we seek reflection

The ever a whisper an incandescent eye droop

Gravity seeking its own breasts cupped so the light can laugh too

How time makes us empathic for women we once reviled

Neglect and its chambers of dropped infants

The insouciance of stubbed cigarettes as woman spooned the creamed peas

Time is making my ankles heavy where I ripped and ripped out my roots

Extirpated that woman in the kitchen smock

Extirpated that idea of seeking permission

 

NaPoWriMo Day Four

There is no need to emerge

The general body plan is

solar, systemic, cnidarian

The mouth stings

Take your flea meds

Live above the float

Somersault tentacles

A separate free-swimming phylum

Its whole body reacts

Shake out the hydra’s head

NaPoWriMo Day Three

 

A human is a half-way house to a bird

Whiplike flagella that lash back and forth

Poking at echinodermata, appropriating invertebrate wraith

 

Is I what it means to be a self

A stomach the length of a performer’s discretion

Granularity of its stain – a tree ring

 

All night the hard fatty substance applied,

Slurps with an enlarged pink.

What are the attempted catechisms masochisms

The wind a push of carnivorous ghosts

NaPoWriMo Day 2

This skeleton of tiny needles

This object in an electrical field

Persons or the general plastic

The process of photographing digital objects

A film of extravascular

Originating in igneous an appendage

Shaped by worry stones

Rebellion marked with liner

Any of several shrub species point to their horns

Lend plasma to the earliest silicate

The conversion of gratuitous benefit

Another term includes relatives

Seem them water the girl watching sparks