Family Jewels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vulture Family Tree

 

They mate for life.

family

Mother went up for atrial stenosis surgery

UCLA sent her home

Some emergency...

Vultures soar on thermals with their kin

I see my tree moving away

After building a dynasty

abandoned

orphaned

Plucked to DNA thin.

Then Healed by time.

PTSD soldier resting on a limb.

Surrounded by almond blossoms with heady fragrance.

Perfumers’ choose frankincense, the notes sing a familiar song.

Grandma’s cologne causes sleeplessness.

I miss the girlies.

In their growth.

In their journeys.

I love them as my own

Barberries, pomegranate seeds and

chunky ruby beads repair a broken spirit.

My brother witnessed his heart on a table.

The anesthesiologist gave him remedy.

A pump kept him going.

A California condor elegy?

Find a breeding program for positivity.

 

 





Our Lady of Guadalupe Jewelry

Vulture photograph from my trip to Africa

Pomegranate Seed Poem Time Out

copyright 8/13/2011 Caroline Gerardo

Time out for me at midnight. Date for death past.Stage four termites in fertile soil.

The experts wire health graphs. Life stolen seven months - it is now seventeen.

“There's nothing else to do.

Miracle you had a child."
Ask peripheral questions,

 easy anger, swift of sword.

"Do not take my everything
  blackened mold tar Umpire."

Another ring. Bell? Time out.

Shrug shoulders to children,
Who cares? Times a game.

Abandoned... I regress too.

Our Father in plastic shroud,
question DNA month before

A life is duty honor courage.
Cells membranes connected

- we all are touch and erase.
 Godot nothingness you say.

Vocation has no such path.

Physics love a connection,

regenerating a dust without
color of monarch chrysalis.

Pomegranate aril venetian 
astringent attracts termites.

Memory burn Nordic star,

 You never loved four years

Joyful toss the crematorium.

Career in Sudan.  Time out.

Soul stolen from an Arabian
mare wearing ruby blankets

her grains in my sandals are
from Aortic Sea as in glass.

Diatomite needle in my heart.
Hands touch - form the letter.