Moon and Back

My 2016 Moons

Don't observe full moon celestial orbs

Occultation of Aldebaran, gibbous moon

Wane shrinks and wax build up absorbs

Cross brightest star in the sky, we swoon 

Stellar eclipse allows lovers to pass

Full hunger wolf moon helps in hunt

Snow sifts after Yule melts the grass

Umbral shadow puts darkness front

Worm Moon comes round back gate 

Fields muddy crystaline calls robins

with earthworms miracle invigorate

The Crow Moon hears your sobs

Death of winter, Crust moon thaws

Brings Sap Moon forsythia gold

Aching breath from layers of gauze

Paschal Moon syncs stories told

Plant fields of crimson phlox

Pink Moon sprouts rose

Salmon opens tribal locks 

Dianthus upstream prose

Brood for the lovers lost

Flower or Milk is spring moon

Blue moon marks the costs

Time for corn, not to prune

Full Harvest autumn equinox

Leaves to ground, deer is fat

At dawn and dusk spot the fox

steal under the watch of the cat

Beaver moon moves ocean tides

Frosty light makes hearts swoon

Clouds of memory take rides

upon winter's lonely moon.

Caroline Gerardo copyright 12/18/2016
Moon and Back Poem

Christmas

Solar garden lights out.

Elaborate expense,

ladder extensions,

tree scaling, 

critics saying the

LED blue / gold  

mis-match, batteries die.

Crystal drop TERRO,

herd of ants wipe out.

Sinus infection visits 

on darkest soot night.

Pain behind eyes 

and gums swell,

SNS stimulation.

Anxiety peaks alone

best at night.

OCD kicks covers off.

Steam nose, hunt 

for decongestant.

Sterilize surfaces

with bleached 

anti-microbial rags, 

get dust shards off.

In lack of light 

swollen eyes read.

Daughter texts, 

"What day we fly

to HAV?" Ignore the

question its too late

for an answer at 3 AM, 

look up the remaining

number Goodreads

goal of books to read.

Haven't booked trip to 

Cuba, flights

are six thousand 

dollars at Christmas. 

Clogged brain, 

a blinking sign says:

FAIL. 

Glass blown decorations

tenderly wait in storage,

arrange for CHRISTMAS.

Copyright 12/7/2016 Caroline Gerardo

Santa Pup

Retail Pet

Dogs sleep on the bed

chickens hatch in kitchen

plan in my head

listen pup

shoe you chewed up?

new retail spanking

 sizes back in racks

purses are absurd

Chloe YSL  Vuitton

sit in Saks

puppies for loves

Ducati or Blackbird

don't wear gloves

fly like lightening

wear Santa hat

run in

no sin

give away

silly morning poem for the pup who eats shoes
Copyright December 6 2016 Caroline Gerardo

Star Knight

Star Knight

Not 

Starry 

Night

A 

star pulse. 

It's a plane, 

circle pattern. 

Sleep stranger 

on  the red  eye 

bones seat belted.

A boy in a smurf

 hat travels space. 

Me alone under covers.

He's not an unaccompanied minor,  college physics books rest in the overhead compartment.  In between a drooler and a smelly fat man. John Wayne shuts tower for Newport slumber. Rest apple buds in rows. Flaps down unaware that open eyes face swarms of bees, condor cauldron of five hundred endangered wingspans stretch on tightrope wires.  They teach vultures to clear lines with electric shock therapy because touching two worlds: heaven or grave burns Icarus. 

Comet above cabin winks.

Passing the sun during

hour the plane is given

permission to land  it

will out gas, shows a

tail to be read by a

soothsayer. I'm here

to reveal the story.

Give love, hunger

 for art, get up upon

failure, each second

goes faster, you fly

 condor with purpose

feel the sound of lift slapping 

your soul, make a picture in closed

eyes to recall on days when dark takes

longer and you think an

earthquake breaks you. 

Study and fly my son!

You can

You will.

Caroline Gerardo Copyright 12/5/2016 dedicated to my son who

has finals week in University of California. Work hard! Healthy snacks,

all night cram  isn't much sticky brain help but re- read text books and think

about connective culture and research the landscape of internet they call fake news.

Often I think paid news, and paid press writers who I once adored are influenced by circles.

 Just circles, end of sentence... be tolerant and read more.

Garden Loved Sestina

Garden Loved Winter Fruit

                    Sestina 

Day Linda writes zero degrees without attention.

His awful silence saws her spine as sinewy knife.

Despite prayers / absolution, superstitions grow.

Dig trenches for olive tree wind break in garden.

Does future Ouija press oil to help blisters heal?

"Do time in her wrinkles," says the cruel mirror.

Daybreak french braid tresses without mirror.

Sections combine, hold steady pays attention.

Sing over under olly olly return sunshine heal.

Sound echos pain, rubber band clangs a knife.

Sage drys, aloe bubbles, salves in the garden.

Seeds of forget me not's barb sanguine grow.

Scorpion grass hitch - hikes on souls to grow.

Don't turn your jaw look upon a winter mirror.

Damn ghosts steal prism light in zen garden.

Done recall the man's text detailing attention.

Dead memory on dry hands balances a knife.

Dregs starved, mud evaporates, tears to heal.

Nights crack because grief therapy can't heal.

Tendril connection bind, cease mind to grow.

Terror think to escape the love of your knife.

Teach Linda to sway joy angle for the mirror

Talk kind, become: don't care girl; attention.

Taste chocolate tomatoes warm in our garden.

Bury your discarded fire ashes in the garden.

Broken urine combines with nitrogen to heal.

Behold: circumnutation coils for attention.

Bold Coral Bells Passion Vine starts to grow.

Become Artesian well of citric acid in mirror.

Marigold pyretherum cores bugs with a knife.

They tell you its time to put down the knife..

They irrigate, pour chloramine on the garden.

To be you, ball gown gorgeous in that mirror.

Think about the steps the feet dance to heal.

Those corns, old blisters from work grow.

Touch her  heart  with  listening attention.

Knife cuts out nonsense  about attention.

Garden winter fruit cures, satin time to grow.

Mirror mercury glass water logged to heal.

Caroline Gerardo

copyright December 2, 2016

Dedicated to Elaine, Lainey, Lucy, Carolyn, Kait,
Maggie all wonderful Poets