accretion/a dream...

 

there is a
wolf
at the door
part of me is
sleeping,
there is a
wolf
at the door
part of me is
working,
there is a
wolf
at the door
part of me is
running scared,
the wolf
becomes bored
with this tableau
and begins
to walk away,
I look out of the window
after him
and cry “oh woooollllf”…
with a low growl
he turns
moves towards me
and slips easily
through
the closed door,
the sleeper
awakens,
the worker
stops working,
the runner is
still,
extending our arms
we all hold hands,
these four parts of me,
we look, laugh and then
share blueberry pancakes
together…

migratory

birds build nests

inside their heads

so they can

live their lives

day to day

 on a wing and a prayer






by lucy meskill

circuit

aim lights a quick fuse
which momentum ignites
wisdom swings a wet broom...

lucy meskill

Seven Wonders, or Notes Taken At A Party

one: Every single lustrous layer of varnish, vanished.

two: One room too small to do anything but stand for a moment in.

three: Each stringer, tread and riser absorbs the light, fantastic.

four: Pictures on a shelf, married pictures on a shelf, and multiplied tenfold.

five: One room so hot, that even the empty glasses are sweating.

six: One room so cold, that every warm cookie on the plate is shivering.

seven: The echoes of life so securely pocketed, and corrugated, that each bit of condensed matter smoothly suspends the passage of time.









image from page 177 of "Boston, a guide book" (1910)

orrery

blue plate swirling, sky

green bowl teeming, earth

yellow cup rising and setting, sun

all traversing the heavens

courtesy of 

the hinged elbows 

of a hungry god

array...

There are angels in the underbrush
there are prophets in the trees
they dance with waving wanderlust
upon four windy seas



lucy meskill

pilots...

the bee told me

just where to stand

to see the universe 

unfold

the envelope told me 

just where to read 

to hear the mountain

groan

the leaf told me
just how to turn
to make gravity
let go

the pebble told me
just how to splash
to glide into the
flow



Lucy Meskill