Red Bat's and teeth.

If you know me, touch your neighbor. If you saw me fluttering, half milk

like lilies, white as pinstriping. imagine funiculus bundles of nerve fibers

with a perfectly round afro. Imagine a school girl asleep on the bus without

headrests,

it's how hyacinth seeds love the sugar earth. Sometimes I smell bad.

so convince the throng of onlookers that I am as the harmless mule

in sage, vain and childless,

that claps the  Nancy Polici "I don't hear you"

drag queen clap in your eye

before the multitude. Were you the one with me

folding

over meth leaves like buttermilk biscuits  waiting patiently for

the next gateway drug to vape me? It's so good to see you happy.

 All these crowded parties

and this mulatto despoil hot-spell and

ain't no way i'm letting this p***y spoil like Opra

waiting on Stedman to get his s**t together. All these death

marches, these Buchenwald  half

alive worry lines. Yeah i'm thin. I resemble soot or

dusty furniture. If you love me, I cling to your sleeve

like black mold. If you sex me, you are doomed

to drag

me around like a sack of gypsy corpses. So handle me

as you would your mothers crypt full red bats and mummies; full of the 

gold that once was before the plunderers entered

my stone shelf

where I was minding my own damn business.

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

time and time again you knock .....me .....out! this is no exception ... your voice ..powerful and from the streets ... backed by intelligent socio-political savvy says i! so glad Ms. Pelosi is in the thread ... leftist rhetoric in the USA is filthy rich and vicious in its syrup ... i swore of news but your "Red Bat's and teeth" has re-lit my fuse ... feels good! the story telling .. the setting and scene are clearly profoundly painted .. i see her on the bus ... i feel her Afro ... and organic scent ... i need to do a lot better keeping up with your posts me friend! so grateful you share your "stuff" with the Cafe' ...
E.

[h d e rushin]

thank you my poetic friend for those kind words...dana

[Ken Simm.]

Searching for words to describe this and even that sounds inadequate to my ears. Surreal, perhaps. Rich, most certainly. Layered oh small gods yes! This is intelligent Americana cubed. As our old friend used to say 'this is top shelf work' by anyone's standards. One of the best I ever read here, there or everywhere.

[h d e rushin]

thanks Ken....this title is from a song that the great Avant Guard sax player Albert Ayler use to play. He was deliberately being anfractuous and me, the furthest from his reality. I took the last 4 months on 2018 off without writing a single poem. Just working on a "voice", a signature sound...like the one you have my friend...thanks for sharing your wonderful mind with me....dana

[redzone]

hey Dana, I am not sure if I want to laugh, cry, rush over and give you a big hug, or run away and hide under my bed.. one thing for sure, red bats and mummies are not anything I want to hang with.... but I am partial to the way hyacinth seeds love the sugar earth, the way a woman can be all that and sassy too, which means she is very dangerously alive and "mule kicking".... this means to me she would be very difficult to drag around anywhere, as she only goes where she wants to go and if you are to be her equal you had better learn to follow as well as lead... and if you try in anyway to dominate her, it would be safer to be living in that crypt with those bats and mummies and gyspy corpses....

so Dana, I was minding my own business, but then I read your poetry and well.... ;0) how is it you write so friggin' well, pull me in and then stomp all over my emotions like some old Roberta Flack song????

[Robert Trakofler]

I will not... ever..... piss you off LOL! You can spin words into battery acid my dear and make us drink it boom boom boom my throat hurts but i can't help laughing at your razor wits even if i'm about to lose my larynx perfect bed time stirrings from your mind! good night my dear and good write my dear this bunny is satiated once again!!!! oh my god the Pelosi clap is now a thing for me I will be seeing it in my dreams tonight :)

[h d e rushin]

thanks Bad Bunny.....You have gained quite the name around here my friend....Your words are just wonderful..dana

[Robert Trakofler]

oh you make the bunny :)

[Paul Bell]

Handle me like a crypt full of red bats and mummies.
You just want to volunteer for that as quickly as possible.
Though I think if you're not up to the job, then it's an a*s-kicking for time wasting.

[h d e rushin]

thanks Paul Bell, finally getting around to the internet again.....thanks you for those kind words my friend...dana