Collage Magazine Poems Poem by Bob Genevro

1.
LOVE IN A NAKED TANGO

I'd move mountains for her

but today
I'll start with a fist full
of golden skinscent strawberry.
Our love in a naked tango.

2.
A MARRIAGE KAPUT
Today's conditions-

ice

A Valentine's Day chill

Lots of frigid air streams
and
naked Arctic mudslides

Sour snow daze
ahead

Oh rescue me
BAYWATCH sun!

3.
ELDORADO
silk air etched in forests
diamond storm stars
barren mountains protect the cape
spare the blackbird and
spoil the hornet

4.
SHARK ALERT!

They have prowled the seven seas
for 400 million years
without moving a muscle

The most feared blood creatures of the deep

The tide has turned the predator
into a lost little shrimp
Your garden variety beauty cream
is largely composed
of shark skulls

5.
MUSHROOM HALLUCINATION #16

It's dawn.
You wake up
and start to roll out of bed
into a scarlet ocean floor
three-thousand feet deep

Next to the clock
a billboard large as a football field:
'BELLY FLOP INTO THE BELLY OF THE WHALE'

6.
GULF WAR I (1992)
high tech arsenic
children drowning in air
children walking on a tomahawk

glimpses of looniness
it's a lollapalooza
volleys of yellow ribbon
half price

all wired and wary
life in a glass tank
a dove faces a
nuclear timebomb tightrope

doctrine: 'we're not going to lose'

7.
TOXIC TEARS
the war dogs in sheep's clothing thrash children

2000 dark mirrors

green fog

the long spark stalks
a cold Fatima

8.
MISTLETOES AND CORNFIELDS

Suppose you gave a Christmas Party
and Uma Thurman showered and showed up
with a mistletoe wanting to
kiss you

Make the magic diamond moment sparkle
all night long
in a greengold cornfield