clouds – haiku and other animals

though the team was broken up we still hoped that somehow we would triumph over the league of loners though we were weak and needed supplies and spicy food with which to regain our competitive edge and as the day finished drawing obscene doodles in the clouds through the gaps in the tall buildings we occasionally glimpsed the blimps of our enemy scanning for weaknesses to exploit though this all feels like ancient history since the hastily written but iron-clad armistice ushered in the new golden age no one really wanted

Remember to

Forget what you know sit softly
lulled by the sound of hundreds of
pens simultaneously writing down
your mistakes think of clouds
over that chasm you love

Forget the ad that is following you
keep sharpening your teeth into points
we’ll see if we can find a knife and a few

layers of breathable fabric as you
start off stinging wind your boot brittle
grass bright crunch beneath

Forget it and start again don’t think of pathogens
the tickle in your throat give the pills a chance

outside flashes of red flowers one ant
carries his scrap of stone down into the dark

one road
out
when clouds
lift the
sharp mountain

cotton candy clouds to open my fist I whisper a wish

above the clouds maybe it’s all juvenilia

the newscaster’s hands gathering clouds

autumn clouds
only a picture
of her dog

reluctant to hyphenate the clouds of August

have I read this before smoke from a chimney clouds from the sky

no one looking I still try to push the clouds