the creative, on a plastic-woven recliner
being-held on the garbage-strewn beach
starts creating as dawn reaches across the sea
her icy fingers peach and violet, ideas spark
and sparkle, that my iphone cant capture
joy found, not only because its broken
after seven years of coercion, in tiny moments

we are surrounded by beach dogs
wagging tails and paws searching
me for snacks and company which
we surrender as we pat and scratch many
ears and necks and sleek black faces
and nuzzles of muzzles into my arms
they bury me in studious welcome

the poet was blind so hes
brushed by the rosy fingers
hes drinking the wine-dark sea
the sunrise of such sweet dreams
as momentary pouring out on me
me and all of these excitable dogs
its shocking( shared )hot-pink allusion


//

altogether(yes) at least
(he) Critias was saying
(since)(you are) (by you)(look you) and (he) is
both a lover of wisdom and
as it seems both to others and to (it)(him)self
altogether poetical


καὶ πάνυ γε
ἔφη ὁ Κριτίας
ἐπεί τοι καὶ ἔστιν
φιλόσοφός τε καί
ὡς δοκεῖ ἄλλοις τε καὶ ἑαυτῷ
πάνυ ποιητικός

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