As Broad as an Elephants Claw

as broad as an elephants claw.

the mounds of holly, jolly as a jumping bean

jumps higher than a needle to the thread.

the glass with eyes no bigger than the brain

head-first it came from houses to the flies.

 

down-wind came water,  brighter than the bone.

asparagus green with a pinch of salted flesh.

freshly cut from the horses smell.

Mojave dusts his fingerprints

two miles safe with his pride of paradox;

 

four clouds of dust as risen as the dead.

slight-of-hand hides the Tarots card of god

from the drowning man, the pillow and the squawk

diving deep into the wounds of heavens well;

still comes the water. thick as candle-blood;

 

chain feet of sun, birds brain and caviar.

from calf to the burning tongue beyond the flare.

to the lords and to the masses hatching eggs.

no man yet as truer than the woman on the nest.

no god yet has taught me otherwise;

 

where hides thy Rod and Staff

the broken wings of Sparrow hanging blue?

there are no footprints in the castles of the sand.

there are no twelve men less common than the ham;

each life has it's cycle

we are ill-prepared to guess as otherwise;