Paradise Motel

Another Way to Fall
Cutting corners off the sky
just to convince you
growing sunset in an empty glass
If I listen real close
what I hear is the music of your
eyelashes coming in from
a long way off

Skintight Sunset Camouflage
a tangle of flames at the
bottom of the ocean
              rocks older than the survival instinct
a seashell madonna
                              surfboard in a bottle

Timelapse Photography
Moments in a day revise the sequence
of dreams (crumbling in the fog
the way the fog crumbles above the surf
I mean right as the wind shifts & pelicans
haul it all away

you may have both feet on the ground
I don’t know
wounded for sure but skipping
like the island of Samoa
over the surface of a rainpuddle

wet petals stuck to the sidewalk
like postage (we’re mailing the side-
walk to Samoa
wrapped up in swampwater
salt ocean kelp riptides & photographs of
rock formations
clipped from library books