Agile

Now with fronds

It burrows

Growls at you

Prehensile tail

Curls around

Moss covered.

Adept

At disguise

You wink

Under that mask

I see you

Do it 

Over again.

Uncomfortable

In the shadows

Move into the light

You say 

To yourself

And yet

You don’t.

 crisis 

A shadow 

Stop, a pellucid spectacle

A grimoire 

A grumble sale response

It deals in turmoil.

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Slime balls 

Ooze down the inside of your brain

A storm out to sea mid-Atlantic

Hurricanes crash together in broils of

Wilderness visions

No thanks and with that

I’ll take the path well-trodden

Taking breathes every step bouncing off

The walls here we go

Again

Old raggedy heron sits on the marsh sign

Three times I encircled him or her

Three times the watch-full symmetry

Almost stopped me in my tracks

Reaching for a camera that wasn’t 

There

Get up early before the day slips away

Like it always does

Instead of thinking about a master plan, why not

Think of a monster plan like those

Furry old films from Montauk

The overgrown wilderness of memory

Wow it looks idyllic

I bet it was

Rock stars jetting in, famous artist breaking eggs in old beach hut

It’s the perfect fantasy lie of 

Care free bohemia

All systems running parallel

the north Atlantic swell

and somewhere out there

the Teignmouth Electron

empty and broken

cargo long gone

in a watery desert

knowing that

this is how the adventure

ends.