a Fourteener - fourteeners have any number of lines but each line should have fourteen syllables
almonds swelling bursting as ripe cherries upon the tongue
as thirty-one thousand sparks fire dance to a song of drums
entwining and binding in three-quarter time pinwheels spin
a strain a note of lowing cello moonlight on its whim
time spinning inside to out rolling skipping turning once
at once both slow and ponyfast pressed naked to the touch
blue magnetic knowing dancing 'cross fields of yellow grain
coming to Led Zeppelin we dash to catch the electric train
time means nothing/everything held within the luscious fuck
seventy thousand sparks carved exquisitly by hearts luck
pulled taunt the thread released pulled to the pop firework snap
'till we chart this place of skin mapped by mercurys ink breath tapped
bone to bone we lay honeysuckle furrow to shaft sage
rising breathing beating faster bewildered assuage
to surrender surety transcendent alchemy
in separation self suspends to sacred agony
release of silver salt mercury to burnish mornings bloom
pain and magic temper the fresh sage scent of witches broom
objects sharpen colors shift to narrow as the burn recedes
oddly beautiful the ridge of wound the taste of glass and apple mead
time tumbles stumbles righting and aligning back from collide
taste of ash and beat of gold linger golden slumbers tide
time stood still while tender wrapped in threads gossamer kind-of
veiled path charted dreams a thousand steps better than love
