Cloud-outtakes

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_{Follow-up to
Sky-sculptor's show}
original poetry
by Hive account@d-pend
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featuring
photography
    by BrightStar2

Cloud-outtakes

Feathered cirrus
arrows of retribution.

The mixture of an ant,
a canine, and a snail.

Living,
a perfect circle
with angel wings.

Protuberous fungi
growing above trees.

A vast coiled aqueduct
topped with a cloud luminary.

Unspeakable monuments and clefts.

Vast profanities obstructing the daytime.

Time recycled in a bin of wisps.

Curtained threats of storm or dreariness,
passive-aggressive with the muted expanse
of hour-after-hour.

Tremulous vectors of discomfiting reflections
behind wheels to steal metal barges.
Brain-factories of pink anxiety.

Escher is born to my upper left;
behind me Dalí plants a cauliflower palace.

To my right, an unnamed bodhisattva
roars with unrequited haiku.

In front of me, inexplicable Octavio
boards a ship of shadow
and wags a gnarled finger at me
while his furrowed brow jubilates.

Ribbed conches of opaque glass,
soft eels blinding in their evanescence.

All the appendages of a shark with no body,
still loyal to their imagined master.

The sea-foam from a dolphin's dive,
yearning for the moment to be resuscitated.