Tag Archive: water


Ultimately

Crisp incessant smacks across faces
then tears flow deliciously lips
lick my lashes

leaving me only
more lonely than now

She waits in style for moments to gather
her future is wrapped in red sash
or maybe her past
peeks through

There it goes again
on the breeze when suddenly
I drop

Dizzy in spirals
from heights attained glory
repeating some wordy world view

Wouldn’t you?
Coo-ka-choo

Tangled in branches
snarled in the bramble
I scurry to the roar of the falls

Aqueous foam
it’s oxygen-rich here

massive turbulence
magnetic churn of moon tides

I will not
hold on

I will not restrain
the flow

I will plummet headfirst
ride the scree like an aquanaut

I pray to be crushed
under oceans of water
reborn in a niched quiet eddy

on my back in warm sunlight

I croon
with these long extinct birds

Chagall 2015

 

The Harbor

On my back barely beneath water,
the soft sand molds me to form,
I’m dense, settled in with full gravity,
heavy human-molten, I dare myself to breathe
in the liquid as at birth my lungs
accustom to the wet, I relax accepting
this will end soon, I smile
at diffracted rays of sun, the final light
I will see this time around; this drowning
is not so hard, it’s more a state of mind.

Chagall 2015

The Succulent

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With little water for many weeks, today I found a small cactus
sprouted soft and smooth-skinned tendrils, still green, alive
like the curly hair of a young child, the candy-apple scent of talc
behind the ears, so many years ago; I gaze at it here on my palm
and hope it remains evergreen.

© Chagall 2015

If I Can’t Make It There

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I browse quickly at my tag cloud
impressed by artists
losing love
somewhere on the streets
of New York
amour
down the drain
barefoot
on cobblestones
losers of Paris–Roubaix

pigeons
with moves like Jagger
peck at the dead
or maybe just
debris

the ice man
no longer
cometh
’cause every call
is the last
good people
in cold room
flats
live days
railroad style

nothing here is ish
it’s the real thing
except no one
accept that it doesn’t
matter
at all
that it matters
greatly

and the view from atop
the bridge at night
is only outdone
by the sight
of approaching
river

© Chagall, 2013

Haiku For Watercycle

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First morning arrives
primal rains deafen sere land
she dreams earth is steam

© Carlos Chagall, 2013

Haiku al’Aqua

The water’s fragrance,
primal and diluvian,
riots my senses.

Clean patchouli scent,
rivets me, sweet then, sweet now;
I am mostly it.

Two parts hydrogen,
and oxygen. Feel the spray
invigorate skin.

Hydrationation.
Hydrationationousness.
Quench me, soak me down.

© Carlos Chagall, 2013