Stop Motion Cyclops

From among the clocks, you assemble like a bullfrog You’re a music box, paintings grooving to your tunes Smarter of the gods, silverware spills from your coat sleeves Mustache the facade, drinking whiskey with the moon Swimming beams of light, plucking songs out of the ocean Fireflies play the night, luminescent glissando From the shadows jaw, speaking paragraphs of silence Bathed in cinema, cosmic void sewn in your clothes As the air turns green, with a horse for a hotel room Whisper to my dream, sail away you crooked star

Your shadow burst through the tree limbs Cloud halos dripping from your chin A constellation of cassettes Glow in the spiral bound sunset Melting in the heat of church pews Ghosts of teenagers miss curfew “We swim like dinosaurs,” she said Bathed in the spiral bound sunset Your parenthetical heartbreak From bunny ears to mouth of snake While others tell of loves long dead We toast the spiral bound sunset Darkening shine, between the lines Your kitchen pale face on the floor The ocean cannot find the shore Empty chest when you realize There is no spiral bound sunrise

Flower petals in your fingerprints, dropping like hints The facts you won’t evince Silver string sewn in your tongue and teeth, glimmer as you breathe Sparkling from under Neath the tough leather skin laid bare The green softness you’re afraid to share Say you’re made of stone but it’s clear you are an Alligator Pear Watch the sunset in a burning match, see a new day hatch See the moon detach Skeletoning everything concealed, reality unpeeled Truths finally re Vealed in a much more flattering glare Your inner core so full of love and care Say you’re made of stone but it’s clear you are an Alligator Pear Tryin’ not to reveal you’re An Alligator Pear

There’s a skin to your absence, hard as a cactus, keeps me from moving away Feet sown to the floorboards, tongue in the sock drawer, my words all amorphous like clay Did you canyon your past, is it echoing back? Does it reverberate, or just excavate? In the night I can hear the moon singing for lovers dancing alone, Beating hearts, filling eyes with fog to be released from the ghost in your home Fall into your echo eyes Did you canyon your past, is it echoing back? In the grave in your eyes, phantoms starting to rise In the night I can hear the moon singing for lovers dancing alone, Beating hearts, filling eyes with fog to be released from the ghost in your home Fall into your echo eyes

With a skull full of TV snow, dreams spill from my ears A blurred panorama prismed in my tears My heart like a hummingbird and belly of beer The ashes of memories stoked flames of my fears Oh, Daylight Moon You told me the story of the lonely lady Her eyes were pianos and her voice was the sea She lost herself in a storm of hyperbole Dandelion mist dance in snow globe jubilee  Oh, Daylight Moon On baby’s breath and kitten paws We squeeze our way past twilight’s jaws As truth slaps us in mock applause And time handcuffs our wrist

In the backyard hideout, underneath the leaves, Whisper all our secrets, tuck them up our sleeves And it makes me nervous, ears a burning match, Hiccups skip my talking like a record scratch Where the sun won’t rend us in its judgy jaws, where the stars won’t point out all our shameful flaws We binge on emotion then explode our hearts, tape them back together and we call it art Green lime smirk and we’re shirking sleep, in the challenger deep When you’re a reverse rainbow, monochrome debris, feeling like a pear in a partridge tree Sinking in brown carpet, tangled in the shag, gravity and gravy dousing time to drag I will sing your anthems, I will set you free, I will shear your halo of uncertainty With a Velcro crackle we’ll reset the skies, fill the dull horizon with apricot sunrise Unzip dreams so that we can keep in the challenger deep Green lime smirk and we’re sleeping, in the challenger deep Unzip dreams that we’re keeping, in the challenger deep Secr...