Patti Masterman Poems

I run for years, I run from fires
And frowns and harsh words and barking dogs
I run to love and away from disenchantment
I rush to judgment and retreat from skirmishes
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The lathe of heaven's spinning, spinning;
Now the web of time beginning,
Time the holder of the many secrets
We must someday learn;
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Vast leaped the candle's flame,
Kissing grotesque shadows.
Blinking eye of the holocaust
Enshrouded by shards of night.
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The peace that war knows
Wasn’t purchased with dripping blood;
The war that peace knows
Wasn’t punctured by artillery sounds.
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Love is a mannequin dressed in rags,
Desire’s the streetcar, that left you in drag;
Time is ephemeral and can't be touched;
Distance is as far as the eye can see,
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The ambidextrous masturbator
Came across a very large alligator,
Who happened to eat his leading arm;
Leaving his other one unharmed.
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Some words hold magic
Phrases to other dimensions-
Where you are going now,
There is no need of keys.
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When you fall into sleep,
Your mind lets go its creatures,
All the dead and living monsters created-
Haphazardly, accidentally, or on purpose.
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All these thoughts I think,
that cantankerous make
the brimming of the brain
(And such are not contained)
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The young child dies at maturity,
but the defiant teenager lives on-
transformed, quiescent.
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