Friday, November 21, 2025

Antoinette Vella Payne

I am not Alone


Faces in the leaves of trees

reflected in my windowpane

since he’s gone


Aliens & baby yoda

stare back at me

They live in the passion flowers


Church of Eight Wheels

Evocative music

in a very old room


Eyes lift to deep blue

dark red stained glass

Mother Mary looks down on us


Step back chasse forth

Fingertips reach up

lifted from my waist


My grey haired

flabby armed self

dances with beautifully flawed humans


Proof

I am not

Alone




Windswept


Blowing hard my head destabilizes

after I take a toke of my pipe

Wind settles down

to a whisper


God’s greens float or

bob like a bobble head of

baseball fame

on the dashboard of a long car


But the wind today!

greeted us with such fervour

Our hair whipped about our faces

Just a bit of cold on bare arms


Outside on the street talking

to Violeta brown goddess

in turquoise jewels 

living rent controlled for a million years  




The Bed on Bush Street

 

When I bought the house on Bush Street 

the owner told me it was haunted.


One late night we saw her by the Christmas tree.

She stood looking out,

shimmering with the lights reflected in the front window.

 

When I was in bed alone one time,

I felt the mattress springs depress down 

as if someone had just sat there.

 

I remember making love

to an electric shimmering green outline.

His name was Bruce. We were married.

His sinewy arms holding me as I licked his face.

 

Another time when I lay alone

an ineffable calm overcame me.

I was high but it still felt like God knew who I was.


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