Eulogy

Katrina Kaye

You crack glass
shell and run through
free-formed twilight,

leaving thermal
foot prints stretched,
distorted in the earth.

I see you
hovering at cliff’s edge.

Like a waterfall,
you gush
towards earth,

escaping from blackness
in a ripple of light,
patterns, colors.

I watch you let go
and find,

as you twinkle
out of this realm,

true beauty.

“Eulogy” is previously published in September (2014).

Moon

Katrina Kaye

even the moon
cracks with time

her radiation limited
to the turquoise of space

so how can we

divine creatures
of mortal world

not expect our
beauty to drip

sky to branch

branch to leaf

leaf to earth

from us

This poem was inspired by the artwork, “Enchanted Moon” created by Paulina Lopez, displayed at StrangeFlock Gallery May 2019.

“Moon” is previously published on the Gold Writing Group website (2019).

Katrina Kaye

I do not use my words
like stringed instruments.

They are not plucked
with such distinction.
They are tossed about,
careless as September,

left to crumble under
the heels of black boots,
graying with wear.

Every word is a burden,
a yellowed fleece wrapped
around shoulders crumbling backbone.

Promises undelivered at front door,
lies folded across the lap at dinner table,
a late night seduction no one hears.

I drown in conversation.

How many feet can shove between lips
before the chips and cracks run too deep;
before there is nothing left to repair?

Do I dare attempt
to crush the shells
stacked between teeth?

Do I dare attempt
to mend stretched threads
with the truth hidden in my gut?

Or shall I wait until the tide of time
takes my words from me?

“Words” is previously published in September (2014).