C & K

The Olive Tree

The olive tree cries
Blood-stained roots long for water
alone in her death
Once the dwelling place of God
now turning to dust and death

One Sunday afternoon
she left the washing and the cleaning alone,
for the day had changed.

Sipping sweet something
she hummed a tune and said, “Perhaps I will
do what he does for a day.”

When Sunday afternoon
became Sunday evening, her husband asked,
“Where is dinner, dear?”

She looked up and said, “I don’t know. I have
decided to do what you do today.”

Truth be told, the catastrophe began when
I decided to study Law and shun the creative callings.

For sensible people, not fools who cannot get work,
you must study something sensible.

Now, between the desk and the chair, I sit pissed off,
yet grateful to have cats and a roof.

the calming darkness
a vigil to the moon, night
rebelling the day

A tangerine in a suit.
Waddling towards the finish line with a desire for greatness.

A lover of the dictators.
Praising tyranny, hurting the nation’s people, and killing culture.

A nod to faux imperialism.
Redecorating the great home with tacky gold-plated idiocy.

A desire for other lands.
Ready to build on the blood and the bones of the many dead.

shrouded in the dark
beyond this life I venture
ascending stone steps
a yearning for this stone place
the familiarity

the brooding cloud sky
an awakening within
the familiar walls
no longer myself walking
words of a spell I don’t know

The settled forest
tanks rolling in the distance
the destructive sounds
Birds take flight, and creatures flee
The trees don’t flinch as they die

The sparkle of the sunlit day, and your mane creating shapes in the wind.

Nose to nose, the carrot becomes a source of curiosity and frustration.

I never wanted to take your reins without your approval, so you neighed ‘yes’.

Still, the carrot is between us.

communion with trees
called the cursed, malignant girl
crying to the sky
church bells carry her body
killed by a feverish priest

longing for fairies,
magical creatures, and a
rare nature magic
caught within the mundane world
an imaginary wish