Thursday, December 26, 2024

Introducing Shroomi

The following is a collection of sayings by and poems about Shroomi, the famous and infamous mystical figure that I just made up about a day ago. 


changing the batteries

in the neon buddha

Shroomi 


re-upholstering

the Divan of Hafez

Shroomi


What we seek

is in our lapse

Shroomi


glimpsing

the wine beyond the glass

Shroomi


unreadable

in words or letters

Shroomi


Violets are red

roses are blue

Shroomi as pi

is irrational too


slice your finger

suture as sutra

Shroomi


one cicada

on three branches

Shroomi


why are whispers

IN ALL CAPS

Shroomi


Shroomi deems

all the eggs in NJ

bedeviled


Shroomi types

dog is good

all the time


finally reaching 

their adult Fahrenheit

Shroomi


Shroomi wonders

if god is the only odd

perfect number


sprout beyond

notions of sense or nonsense

Shroomi


rhyming axolotl

with “a showboat”

Shroomi 


broken guitar

nothing left of the blue

in Shroomi’s eyes 


kissing the hands

of the cuckoo clock

Shroomi 


cursive words

in yellow on snow

Shroomi was here


reciting 

Aha in his fez

Shroomi


broken guitar

the unstrung blue

in Shroomi’s eyes


the women

giggle when he appears

Shroomi


calling shotgun

everytime we roll

Shroomi


oh gee

it’s a trochee

Shroomi


Shroomi says

god is the sky

in the pi


shredding his poems

before ghazaling them

Shroomi


reciting Hafez 

versus Hafez verses

Shroomi 


more people

on the garden path

than Shroomi has


jelly of all

the obsidian beans

Shroomi


sufi in the streets

fluty in the sheets

Shroomi


knot keeping

up with his haijin

Shroomi


sooner reciting

“my seal, Liam”

Shroomi


falling into

the black rabbit whole

Shroomi


do not buy

this book if you’re high

(Shroomi says)


not bound

by what he’s bound for

Shroomi


in bed

before ache o’clock

Shroomi


doe-eyed 

as Euclid’s proof of limitless primes

Shroomi’s beloved


somehow 

multiplying in Times Square

Shroomi


almost resembling

most of it assembled 

Shroomi


December moon

sighing in Sagittarius 

Shroomi


putting the nig

in shenanigans

Shroomi














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