A Rowboat Dowry

Our youth’s desperate flowered whirlpool sea
Slips in slaps and surges, waves and ripples,
To the longtime postcard of infinity,
By washes, eddies, sunset stipples,

Ancient fragrant hieroglyphs that advertise
The brocade tinsel of a glitter tide,
Painted diamonds in our easel eyes
That shimmer in the colored varnish to provide

Washes eddies gurgles swells and billows
Of our childhood ties
To these future tapestries,
Caught by photos anaglyphs and Polaroids

That advertise the varnish, glimmers
Of infinity, cover ancient fragrant scented pastel
Painted tide until last year’s strangled
Silent shattered shallop sailboat shell

Whirlwinds fire outrage violent spume
Over tantrums anger agonies
Of the xeroxed images and Kodachrome
That bring unruffled tinsel fantasies

Untroubled easy-going back to sea.

July 4th, 2008
April 25th, 2026, Kaiholu