9

girl & the crab-apple moon-cat

a slice of apple
on her tongue
she eats the moon

in her belly
crab-apple moon
becomes a dream

crab-apple moon
pours its light
into the white cat

touching the lake
with its face
cat licks moonlight

silken moon o silken moon
the sleeping child sings
cat hears its name

through the reeds
with its tail up
cat hooks the stars

approaching the yard
cat watches its shadow
cover the house

bulb of paper lantern
moths queue up
for the cat’s mouth

through the cat flap
of her dreams
goes the silken moon


tanka

crows block the gates
to the sun
            with a thistle
            as my parachute
            I fall from the curb


Scifabulaiku

exotic dandruff medusa’s serpents slough their skins


her robot’s stuck on her rusted in coitus


spacetime cracked on crack his brain in the walnut casing


organic metal umbrellas hull fungus drains all cyst ems


dead heading eves in the anti garden mad adam


vampires enter heaven the lice in gabriel’s wings begin to stir


ripened pores skin-vampires ectoplasmilk through the dermis






















John W. Sexton