“Photographs for Royalty”

“Photographs for Royalty”

I awoke to the flowers of my vomit

and tells the splintered heart of old

we were rash to be photographs

but presence wrapped so secretly

the severity of moonlight moonshine

drop, skip, and a jump rope

but horrible omens did ever cease

train-drowned rivers the seat of disease

explore with us these daisies and your fire

the underwear of submarines

and laughing-glass smocks

we tied up the dirty dishes

lunged at panthers secretly

in bellies of storks

please pet the ragweed and cattails

this umbrella falls

and we’re swamp-innocent

the cottontails of rattlesnakes in the mail

your ivory broken branches,

onyx through a beautiful river

of infinite and this pain of honey.

Tags: Nicholaus Patnaude, photographs for royalty, poem, poetry