Yellowstone Tree

Another chirpy piece!

Yellowstone Tree.

Have you seen evil
When you close aching eyes
In strange serpentine bends
Dark labyrinthine mazes
Sharp and stark
Of comatose grotesque mind?

Have you spied an ugly
evil tree that raises its surreal
demoniacal head?
Yellow weevils and spiky fuchsia bolls ushering portals
Of fibrous dead ends?

If I could show you
Portraits I have drawn
Ugly evil  pictures
Strangling all my dawns?

In shiny stiff sutures
Cauterizing steel wool pain
Suffocating dead air
Filling stifling my sarcophagus
brain?

A soul sterilizer, tears
Melt to
Tangled afternoon flesh
Mangled motions
Strategic emotions
Planning escape.
Steaming and turgid
Bloody entrails of discarded notions
The dirty buckets of dreaming trash.

You would shiver
perhaps you'd cross yourself
But hush!
Be thou still...
Nighttime will come
And you will tell your tale.

Byzantine baroque and eponymous stale
Your litany of doom.
Brilliantine mazes of eternal
Recurrence of dingy rooms.
The magic never wears out
Yet matter decomposes,
Becomes decadent stale...
Dark labyrinth mind
Yellow Gold blossoms
Florid pages of hell.

You shall find
Glowering libraries
Arcane books all out of the stock
Memories alluring store
Run by mom and pop
Unseasonable
Unsettling distraught.

Voids unreasonable
Distractions, distortions
dormancy and lingering debts
Frustration's fingers wringe in despair
And gingerly camp in your head.

And the dilettante yellow blossoming tree
Such steady soft focused flowers
Destiny's fruits ripen in the making
Gravelly bitter, and sweet and sour.

The draconian  brain empirical
Graveyard of all our Time
Lecherous vault of the leering dead
Reasoning all out of rhyme...
Ugliest rearing of fuzzy
old yellow heads
Affecting us in our deathless
Livid soil...nameless tombstones
the ephemeral
Life giving flowerbeds..

(c) Amrita Valan 2015