Facelift

cracks in the pavement


some like a tongue sliding

    forward to taste open sun

some from

smelling morning like pine/apple pie

or chasing an echoing crow's caw

like the softest sizzle cymbal jazz

    or electronic string

and because thinking was like almost being old


young cement cheeks moisten

let steam saturate mid

    -sky

cloud blind a perfect glowing halo star

gravitating psylent like unborn ears to western august

no smell nor taste

    only liquid

a thought runs to the gutter

on a purposeful wrinkle.

forced innocence

    stolen experience

© Tom Purdue 1999

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