Gleam

David Wolf

Gleam

By David Wolf

© 2023 David Wolf

Offering up more fakery

Frosty intercalary, anyone?

Earshot’s cloudy gotchas

Fecklessly a-veiled

Essentially, sesquicentennially, whose

Counting adds up

Tilting lit . . . ting!

I owe you more here, I know

Leakage coursing freely as doused breakage

Eek-streaking

Age-old cracks hacking

Knowing all and zero of what’s knotty pining away

I retreat (have another bonbon)

Narratively, spaciously, between bleats

Laugh wholly hellish or on the half shell

On the pole or swimming in chaff

Surfacing in doubt dispatched by faith

Tossing back a grrr

Chaos calms

Hairsplitting balms

Oh so easy to ________

Tear in twos

Into (boohoo)

Creation blurs so . . .

Shatter, sow as shadows adhere

And ever-coming-going-gone-now

Dissembling woo

Oh, don’t venture “true”

Withhold the blowing of the golden

Shunned shining bubbles p(i)sst