Milk is liquefied stars.
Jars for milk are made from glass;
Glass is made when lightning touches sand.
Jarred milk is most similar to the Moon;
Jarred milk wants to be the Moon.
One becomes an astronaut by drinking milk from jars;
Inside each astronaut: stars.
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a list poem for "Are You Listing?"
and 55 words counting the title for G Man.
In my mind I'm seeing Milky the Clown trippin on acid
ReplyDeleteYou are such a Peach Shay
Thank you for this intricate Gem
Loved your lactating 55
Thanks for playing, you know how that tickles me,
and please have a Kick Ass Week End
TWIN PINES...!!!!!!!!!
Ha! Love it. Verrrry cool, quirky-girl. And you know I soooo adore Cat Stevens. I played his 8-track tapes till I wore them out more than once in our orange hippie VW van w/a sun painted on the side and with the bed in the back and purple psychedelic curtains I sewed in high school home ec. Ah, youth...wasted on the young.
ReplyDeleteGroovy poem, chick! xo
I feel somewhere there is a cow who feels cheated.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I love the way this winds in and out of its own logic, and makes us think of what ought to be in what we drink that's good for us.
I just love 'jarred milk wants to be the moon.'
Very abstract and slightly surreal. Loved it!
ReplyDelete...but no mention of Tang? I thought that's what the astronauts drank when shooting for the stars.
I especially like the sequencing and progress in this, fireblossom. My favorites we the lightning hitting the sand and the moon--but it makes for a beautiful whole. Nice.
ReplyDeleteha. nice progression in this...wrote a poem for the weekend with astronauts in it...stars in the milk and glass made of lightning...see i knew there was a reason i need to drink more milk...well that and good bones...considering my mom is struggling with the calcium already...to the moon shay.
ReplyDeletesmiles.
The simple gravity of your creation resounds with the best I know.
ReplyDeleteAloha
wow... milk is wonderful, isn't it!?
ReplyDeletea fun read.
nice - i like your milk facts - esp. that milk is liquefied stars - i was always suspecting this - ha - very cool
ReplyDeleteI love this poem...
ReplyDeleteit took me 3 or 4 reads
to figure out what was going
on...the Listing...
but even then, I loved it.
Very enjoyable read.
Peace
Siggi
How lovely this is, Shay, and all perfectly logical to me. (I drink milk and I'm full of stars too.)
ReplyDeleteLOL... made me laugh
ReplyDeleteMilk...liquefied stars. Milk...my favorite beverage. Cat Stevens...one of the most gorgeous singers of the 70's. (I haven't heard "Into White" for decades. Thanks.)
ReplyDeleteI really like this poem. I have seen sand after a fire, and it turns to glass
ReplyDeleteThat was wonderful. I remember getting milk in bottles on our front porch. Magical.
ReplyDeleteFlash 55 - ground zero
Milk and stars...so glad I can be an astronaut. Love it! btw I was more than happy to review your book! I loved it!
ReplyDeleteAnd that's why I love living in the dairy state! I'm made of star stuff!
ReplyDeleteThis is so fun - love it!
Everything you touch is magic.
ReplyDeleteOh for the days when we picked up our Moo Juice from the dairy. Un-pasteurized or homogenized; we tasted the seasonal grasses and the cream always rose to the top!
ReplyDeleteSweet and simple!
ReplyDeleteMilk is liquified stars...cool! (i always thought so) The moon in a jar. I love this. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteEgyptian Cows Make Stars.
ReplyDeleteIt has to be true I heard it
one Wiki day.
This is waaay trippy!
ReplyDeleteLIghtning hits sand,,, great ine
ReplyDeletebeautiful words....lovely lines!!
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