| SLEEPY WHALE by Terry Brinkman Sonnet CCLXVII Bristles shining wirily in weak light Lady Chapel Jack Priest Peacock Motley affairs of a moss covered rolling rock Last swig of the Challis at twilight Loom of the Moon-light Pat of her destruction Flintlock The sun never riser before the hawk Receiving a Papal blessing at first daylight Her Biscuit Tin holding a lizard Like a fly sticking in a duck’s quack Storm tossed hearts in a blizzard Nudging the door open with her back Sacred synod believe in the izzard Philosophical assertions of Jack Sleepy Whale 283 Stood before the shattered window The swing back and forth up and down Her stockings Fell loose over her ankles With field glasses Probably at his lunch Watching alabaster silent wild geese Greenwich Time, can’t see the clock Blurt out, must be a New Moon, falls at gas halls spinning Sleepy Whale 284 New Moon shadows over frozen rock Dead Shells lay around its feet She’s May Moons beaming love Like holding water in your hand His hands fell again to his sides The rain mucks up Muslin prints Molly looks out of plum Wealth of the known world Wet warm human plumpness Harvest Moon, won’t pick up the pins Sleepy Whale 285 Glow worm’s lamp is gleaming Harvest Moon’s hopes Hear it in the library Hoof thuds low-ringing causeway Rain mucks up the thrum Dallying silk mercer’s windows Silk high voices drink Meyer’s beer Sun-warm blood-hued Poplin Perfume of embayed heart Pincushions great chorus Night Stroll Night my time to stroll with snot green ghost candle I run pass the verge of the keen glance cliff Cross over the narrow gorge on red bridge See the jack priest and moon mid-watchers The noisy cowboys and Indians at Lady Chapel Made me half mad Cigar fibers flying from my lips Deathless Gods staying alabaster silent About the Author:Terry Brinkman has been painting for over forty five years. He started creating Poems, he has had five poems in the Salt Lake City Weekly. Five Amazon E- Books. Variant and Tide Anthologies. Poems in Rue Scribe, Tiny Seed, jute Milieu Lit and Utah Life Magazine. Poem Village, Snapdragon Journal, Poets Choice, In Parentheses, Healing Muse and the Adelaide Magazine |