For Carrie, on her birthday
white witch of of the primordial oceans
a sphere of Fire swims
through vast expanses of deep,
trudging, Gulf Stream, without end
the wake of each wave is a play space
for Olokun’s children, bobbing up
and over the water
delighting in their own weightlessness
waning lunar light glimmers
on the surface of an exoskeleton,
a creature bearing a barb,
sharp, it is a needle
dipped in fiery nighttime
whiplash smile, able to cut,
deep into the heart of urgent issues
or to hobble an enemy
with vials of poison,
whatever job need be done,
that day
winged heels take to flight
upon waves of air,
transmission of electronic signals,
through waves of sightless ether,
collecting data and drops of dew
ideas float on currents, across
all space and time
sharing a spot with the
silver tongued trickster
is a red man of war, atop a war horse,
bedecked with invisible armor,
as hard as a hundred mountains
but light as a hummingbird’s breath
his sword drawn
and leveled at the temples
of his foes, to skewer the craniums
of intellectual fools,
here in his compound of Air,
he draws on his vast chalkboard,
designing inventive new ways of war
the warrior’s consort is
floating neither in Air,
nor is she hold up in some rich,
resplendent palace of Earth,
neither does she take a dip
in the immense pool of fish pairs
instead, she is bathed in Fire,
full of wrath and vigor
and the conquest of all things
she carves her name
into the trunk of time
and carves the throat out of fear
the ancient architect
hath built up for himself
a strange structure, not his typical castle
and not quite a chariot,
with predictable, rolling wheels
nay, his world walks, tank-like, upon on
an assortment of odd, spindly stalks,
grabbing at the ground,
drawing their meals
in with Mesozoic pinchers,
pulling each meal into a small mouth,
where the Lord of Time
consumes his peculiar fish
all these dance and sway and spiral,
without end
all chuckle, change and challenge,
wrapped in a weird package, labeled friend
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(Kevin Trent Boswell)
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