segreant

segreant

A Poem by h d e rushin
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my birthday poem

"
I
must be like the hydrated 
petunia rushed with ease
in the April sun. Must be
the showy, drooping MILF
with the inflated lips
knot knees and that
fine speech.
Must be jewels
like crowded, sessile
leaves. Must
be narcissism 
or the paper wings
of Dadalus that
enables my yawn laurel
escape from this strangling 
vine. It's
my birthday and
I am older than yesterdays
Ivory liquid left sitting
in my porcelain face basin
the juju gnats 
make their babies in. I
am uglier but thinner.
I love cats, not at all
the ones in estrus. I can
smell funny when it's light out.
I still fall for old movies with
boats
"On The Waterfront", "Titanic"
even when all else fails and satisfaction
dissipates just above the ice shelf.
When Poncitoni Phil
comes to me in my low
candle lit half kitchen,
this is how they'll know
I loved.
Men will argue the bride-head
but divide me in equal portions.
This part, for you, condensed by vapor.
This part for those who saw the forecast:
A fragrant gum resin from trees,
rivers overflowing,
cows adrift, running wild,
clouds gathering closer
to the heath. 

© 2019 h d e rushin


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another year older ;( yes... it happens don't it Dana?! reading is a treat my friend...you give me new words .. its rich in mythos ... and oh so real ... i wish you lived next door to me Dana ... you light up and flavor my life ... truly you do ... great stuff ... and taking a risk here ...... Happy Birthday! ;)
E.
ps. funny how the mirror can reflect such opposite poles ... ;)

Posted 5 Years Ago


h d e rushin

4 Years Ago

thank you dearest love. and good morning to you..dana
Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

your dissemination is a jewel of myriad facets and your advancement in time had not formed an uglier Dana but added a few more prisms to that jewel and a sprouting of your own wings as you shed the back Daedalus and the gazers & grazers throng to your vision as more seeds arise from that flow of yours! A Happy Happy day for you, but to us all.... indeed

Posted 5 Years Ago


h d e rushin

5 Years Ago

thank you Bad for your kind words my friend...dana
perhaps I should just say Happy Birthday Dana …. and there was another old movie (1951) 'The African Queen with Humphry Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.... oh, and you can never trust that Poncitoni fellow, he's as two faced as they come.. this year he said spring was just around the corner HA!! as the polar vortex flows further south and running wild cows are definitely not a good sign....

anyway, about your poem, well, it is as unsinkable as Molly Brown and as dramatic as Marlon Brando standing next to Eva Marie Saint, as even in a birthday poem you thrill and delight the reader... so can I ask, how it is a woman, turning 29 knows about any of these movies??? ;0) er… okay I am ducking and moving out of the room...

Posted 5 Years Ago


redzone

5 Years Ago

oh, I wanted to add that I had to look up the meaning of 'segreant', which an interesting title for .. read more
h d e rushin

5 Years Ago

thanks redzone…...I actually went on a mini vacation to get away from this awful cold in Michigan... read more
redzone

5 Years Ago

it would be safer all around if your age and gender were ever revealed, I mean, the earth may revers.. read more
This highly intelligent, insightful poem is so full of images, both funny and compelling, that it can overwhelm you at first reading. It speaks deeply to those of a certain age and those approaching it. If it's not already in a literary journal, it belongs in one. Very well done.

Posted 5 Years Ago


h d e rushin

5 Years Ago

thank you dearest for those kind remarks...dana
i love this, dana....
i became so enmeshed within the words...same on those two movies.
but more so...yes, we have too many birthdays as we age...but am glad to have lived to reach them.
And as we go through life we give so many parts of us away....maybe by 90, there will be nothing left to give...
i also love cows because of my Vermont days....and them running Adrift....like a lost boat...really like that.
j.

Posted 5 Years Ago


h d e rushin

5 Years Ago

talk about image making...when I think of Vermont or Rd Island...I think of cows and pasture land. B.. read more
jacob erin-cilberto

5 Years Ago

yes, dana, cows and pastures and beautiful barns....everywhere you look it is like post card in VT. .. read more

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