A Box Acrostic On Me Kneecaps

Daringly, I – braceless – stood…

The City Poetic

Sing silence from the unstaged page, the rhythm riv’ring through.

I switch from now to then; from then to now.

The staggered-stain of iodine…

The dog-violet blends its colour in amongst the scattered sky, as light coursecrashes through the canopy…

“More to see! The child who eats the twisting treat; the gull who rides the unseen surf.”

No ellipses; ellipses…

Breeze breaks in laughter loosed; kuhllainkkinkcnk sothairyugoe! hahihihihihuh hyeh-uh?!

Reincarnate, they live as long as us.

Above the reaching leaves that grow beyond the basket’s edges, dance petals of lilac; of white; of crimson.

Ink-blue; windswept; late-night.

Speak harshly ‘gainst our walls.

Your wealth extends to awe all foreign lands! Your pious worship deeply pleases all our divine hosts, who bless our lives with Ma’at!

Clouds cling – fast.

‘Midst the dawn’s chill, she watched the night-time passing westward as she felt the tide of heat fall on her bare skin.