Borrowed Cool

the flan elan
Vic Tory's a principle
market

gel fabric softeners
Martha their way to the yard

with Oprah's Franzen chorus
as Frank Sinatra's L.A. ghost
where the Jersey Coast brewed
Spring teens and all their chorus

a Jackson in your house
moonwalking parapets as leisure
the company I

Keep Rona's
I get them all
the time

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               Enduring Endearment

The obstinate ostinato
clatters brashly, a verbal streak

       across dawn's slow ripple.
       Not even the obligato sets at dusk.

The intended overture

       tapestries against fenestral wings

              imagined.

                               .    No purple sunsets.
                                    Azure splashing nectar swirls

                                              away the desperate fenestral lapping

the wish of sudden wings
tacked to the crescendo rendered distant
on an urgent breeze,

            beyond touch
                  beyond water
                                                 beyond music:

                                                             strident, its intended
                                                             lapidary pulse still

                                                                   throbbing

                                                                                near her

                                                 shadow