Moving arms like a marionette with no strings.
Invisible tension.
Cuts like a knife.
A Japanese sushi chef chops seafood on a butcher block of wood.
Ninja arms –
silent chops.
Kite angels – capoeira – unpracticed.
Trained in words.
Blurred inner vision.
Clouds roll into their hearts.
It pours.
The path of lightning – only parts are seen.
A sail – the mast –
swinging – the direction of the wind.
Zigzagging or tacking.
Puppets lifting elbows.
Jarring.
Grease.
Slippery phrases slide off tongues.
Like a toddler, head first – who heard his mom say,
“Wait!”, but didn’t listen.
The hot metal slide –
gripping at chubby legs.
up the shorts –
sticking butt cheeks.
Red, flushed skin.
The heat –
The sound –
the sound of a screech
like pinching skin –
hot to the touch.
A yellow slide.
With static.
The smell of polyethylene or propylene.
Nostril hairs stand sideways reaching for freshness.
Like dew drop air.
Damp, moist, fresh.
The biochemical smell of dirt when it rains.
Fungus fingering and flipping the bird.
Anger – followed by deep sadness.
A calm, still sadness.
Hand on chest – tears rolling down cheeks – pulled by gravity.
Without sound.
Weighted with water – known – substance.
Quick drips cascade to the chin.
Shoulders don’t heave in rhythm.
Consciousness. Awareness.
Allowing without control.
Owling – head swivels around.
Sharp-eyed – sharp beaked.
Talons and tufts of feathers.
Static electric.
Mouthing words.
Communicating conflict.
Seeing the scene splayed out of the corner of my left eye.
Dancing – slowly – trepidatiously.
Tip-toeing on daggers.
Splinters. Splice.
Rotten tomatoes.
The taste of mould hidden at first sight.
Observe. Intervene.
Unravel or entangle.
Ensnare. Enmesh.
Weighted net with iron balls.
Tossed on land.
Cast over water.
Butterfly netting.
Fire ants.
Poison and purpose.
where rivers are born 