Pointillist II (Day 436)

Breathe hush wind beach fog 

Petal cup hand abundant kiss

Slice green point edge damp

Electric shiver ice steel frost

Marine slough clear shimmer curl 

Breath flow gurgle chime rocks

Bird floral bittersweet wing dust

Knowing warmth wait send tucked

(c) 2018, by Hannah Six

Image: Patterns of the superbloom 

at Carrizo Plain National Monument 

Bureau of Land Management/ Flickr

Black Coffee in Handpainted Mug (Day 393)

too bitter 

to ignore 

the purr it 

releases  finding 

purchase on 

the porcelain 

glaze  cobalt 

perfection  

devoid of 

the grit and 

fingerprints 

one might expect 

on an everyday

object made 

of clay intricately 

painted by a 

tired-eyed woman 

in a dusty 

crowded room

so far away 

I cannot begin 

to imagine 

the language

she speaks

in her dreams.

(c) 2018, by Hannah Six

Stalk (Day 334)

here  so delicately 

breaking that bright green

tendril  the interloper  

stalks swagging thick  

swarming over branches left 

sweating in water-air  dribbling 

into depths of dromedary 

bliss  learn deeply 

to kiss this odd laughing 

fountain  look back like catfish 

after dark  learning that neither 

crickets nor fireflies glow 

here  so delicately 

(c) 2017, by Hannah Six

Image: GSmith via Wikimedia Commons