Pavlov’s Box

Like Timmy of TV-land lore
I’ve fallen in a
well
(abyss)
Unlike Timmy,
–of reliable best friend–
Lassie
is dead.
the new Lassie
is a replaceable
Pavlov’s
dog,
and I
–in fact–
might be
that dog.
©Karen Robiscoe
Sunrise in Santa Barbara
the lovely Ledbetter…
Rate of Exchange
Rate of Exchange
I am a gap girl–
a hand-struck
lucky penny
unfound
despite redolent obversity
–collecting
nicks
&
knocks
&
scuff
&
scratch
&
dents
&
dings
from a coin flipped
heads, you lose!
into a grate
that’s ungrateful, despite
well…
being a grate!
beats 2 outta 3 tho
¢
–in cracks I expand–
like tar
like spackle
like a life-preserver
’cause I am crazy amorphous like that
every now and then
my portraiture
peeks
up
&
out
spent but unused
my pretty patina
just vague recall
that I
am
a LUCKY penny
…
lucky…
¢
every now and then,
my etched silhouette turns,
alloy neck craning
to allow my sightless eyes
to peer from that storm drain…
Gazing at where I might have spent my time
// through a forest of stamping feet //
passing by
unaware.
Soft Cell

Maybe we are all just part of the Godhead
each one of us—
cells in His body,
the cosmos: His plasmic soup
the planets: His bones
the stars in your eyes: His eyes
all stars, I mean, since He’s built a little differently, I think,
–pulsing with stellar energy & Pearly Gate-orade–
I’ll bet God gets His licks in at the gym!
Maybe His moles are our cancer,
and don’t get me wrong,
moles are lovely—
Marilyn’s & nocturnal, both
(I like ’em anyway, even if they’re more 7-year-scratch than itch, since who’s to gauge beauty, really? Isn’t all Life beautiful? Part of the greater whole, the mole–
part of the Godhead,
but hey,
someone’s got to go.
Cells regenerate to stay dynamic
in all bodies
great and small, and moles are infamously deep cover.
Maybe the Einsteins
Keplers
and Hawkings
are part of the Godhead brain,
and
Van Gogh
and
Mozart
and Debussy…
Dickinson,
Poe
and
Pollack….
maybe they are
part of His
♥
He’art.
©Karen Robiscoe
Bedroom I
I retire to my 4 poster
draw curtains
a while

covered by Pin-ups:
Led,
Bread,
Motör-head,
&
the Dead.
©Karen Robiscoe
July 29, 2014 




