My collaborator
had her hand near her nose
making a fan like shape.
Identifiable yet provocative.
Categorization is a private matter.
Ideas can be mistaken for anything.
Just once try walking on a foist fence.
One two three kick, jubilantly.
Simply fabulously better.
Debriefing the newly captured
wild horses, I warned them to
keep their galloping at a minimum.
Also, that huge fallus must be
contained in this handy leather sack.
Pay attention to the human condition,
the male’s obsession with his.
Don’t show us up territorially.
Intelligence is binary at best.
If you have to leave a light on
at night to rhetorically read,
then turn it off by dawn and
stop underlining passages of
interest, nobody does that anymore
except college students who
intend to throw the book away.
Your compliance is appreciated.
While out in the inner sphere
we developed several complexes.
An anti gravity belt had to be worn
to deceive our therapist,
who weighed us at every session.
Infinity still beckoned near the
receptionist’s desk, getting past
those eyes unmentioned.
Casualness was called for.
Topeka Kansas seemed like
a good place to start. After
moving house and possessions,
communication could continue
through FaceTime. Efforts to deceive
by posturing sideways and
weighing ourselves inaccurately.
Behind us on a wall, the mathematical
formula for happiness was framed
and written in an intentional blur, had many
squinting and asking “is that a six or a nine?”
They haphazardly arrive at dusk
raving about nature’s light.
I have all the amenities set up,
three courses would be too much
so a buffet is encouraged.
Topless musicians of both sexes
navigate their transcendent tables.
A tent is provided for more.
The songs are birdlike leopards.
Trees of willows and weeping moss
have my guests unable to sit.
They spy the rare Egyptian moth
anticipate its fluttering effortlessly.
The floor show begins its high kicks.

Colin James has poems in the New English Review and Antonius Ring recently. He lives in Massachusetts with two cats, Dorothy and Jane.