BILLY JONES
Poetry—'Full Bloom'
      

1:21pm chief Crazy Bone thinks
about a shave & a shower
after joint #3 but first
he must write the poem
that ambushed him as
he watched a turtle
dove edge sideways
down bottlebrush
to dappled
birdbath
reflection
dazzlement

the 9 foot something sunflower
with 2 inch bud slowly expanding
into ultimate Vincent yellow
bent by the weight
of the still all
green tightly
folded sepal
rayed head

the birdbath
& dooryard
& driveway
beds give
him ways
to express
his affection

he likes
what he sees
in the slits
of the eyes
of the invisible
goddess
of no
where