Monday, October 09, 2006

Dreaming and Poetry


Dream of Sand Dunes

Day holds me up like a stick.
From a small room, I can see
silver foil on the ceiling and
concrete speckled floor.
You are in bed, or in a house
somewhere, or covered
in dirt, suffocating. Do you know

this desk lamp is on my face
every day. I lie in bed
and think of smoke rising,
my throat tightening into blackness—
coal, or jagged rock.
You hold this in
the palm of your hand, open
some nights, for me,
dark river rising
out of dry hills.


Dream of Holding Hands

Orange blue
clocks stop for me I see the ocean
frozen
eye of black pupil I see
that I envy you

Think I have your bone fragment in my brain
I do not
have that coal soot trail of enlightenment
oh brother
I dream of babies that hold on
with little hands
think I’m their mother


Both poems written and copyrighted by Kristina Coker

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey,
seems that you have stolen my name
I am a poet like you
I have been publishing and performing under the name of Lightning Rod for the past 35 years.

This is not a cease and desist order, it is just to say that you picked a good name....haha.

http://www.studioeight.tv/LR

Tealrat said...

ha ha, I used that name because my doctor called me the lightning rod of my family. great minds think alike, I suppose. ;)