O habibi open open
carrots peppers spinach
to laugh to cook to eat
brightly slowly quick.
O habibi garlic onion
turmeric ginger cumin
a shiny cigarette box
& enough money to live.
O habibi lentils raisins
spelt, rice, Chinese tea
the smile that derails us
acts to set us free.
O habibi open open
open, open, open
open open open
open.
Curly willows, yellow grass
Feral goats, we seek we seek
Abandoned gate, bent, aside
Abandoned bucket, tree grown around
Still cows, drumlins, stones
Good moss & rust
Over there listening marijuana complacent
watch half-hour thrillers smoke copiously
and wakeful chirps and
why collect air in perfect jars,
examine so curiously?
The sea! The sea!
You look disastrously perfect as is,
an extended dream - romanticised.
I’m slung incidentally down wild hills
through wild crowds by principles - not mine.
After you each tree each street is muted.
I try to think in meanings - receive you.
God lifts her face positively at awe
gives it an inspiring mystique Ta Da!
She roams joyfully with a gun
toasting idols that murmur invention.
God shoots at empty green beer bottles
just for fun Bang! Bang!
She quickly drinks chilled champagne
as bubbles rise all the while crying
fecklessly.
Person opens
their yellow front door, and steps
out into the ocean
mist. It is pleasant enough
to feel. A satisfying click
and their door is shut
behind them as they take another step,
and realise - how open are people?
Surreal Earth Mother by MaskedFarqueharson, literature
Literature
Surreal Earth Mother
She cradles
endangered species
in the cotton slings
that adorn her
accommodating
body.
We the crowd
gasp politely as
a Giant Panda
emerges dazed
from the hammock of
her mind.
A friendly
Amazonian
Manatee grazes
the riverbed
of plant-life between
her thighs.