Short Disentangling Poems

I don’t lie-in bed for an extra minute
I will have time for that when it’s too late
Somewhere it is already tomorrow
They are catching life’s new joys and sorrow
My turn to awake and live it out
Every minute reveled and endured
Disentangling myself from this bed
Is not about my arms, but my head...

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The gnome wizard is proud of his transmogrifying hat.
Through telepathy he can cajole it to turn into a cat.
Or a dragon, an anaconda, a worm, a mealy mouse or rat.
The only thing he does not ask is that it turns into a bat.

A bat gets stuck in his hair and makes him sneeze.
Disentangling a bat is not easy, not any kind of breeze.
He might consider it if it is below zero, and a freeze.
For if he wore a hat he might get rid of him with ease....

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we dissolve… 
into the silence of time
knots of death and water  

spreading  
the thick sleep  
of space and shadow  

perforations of night
cold and shapeless 
kissing cool on the tongue

that tilt 
into those  
crooked little dreams…we dissolve  

It is the drunk of autumn  
the smell of earth 
seeds wrapped in God 

where whips of fire 
shake into a lion red rage 
bending around us…through us

disentangling our breath   
between the stark 
and pale light
...

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