a ladybug's experience in space (sleepy poems)

cicada

let's elope in the candlelight mist with pictures of sunny street cats in our lucky wallets
let's calm down, dance and smell like citrus in the belly world of our dark green and fuzzy maternal love
make peace with the black hole, converse with beauty daily and be free
go to aquariums and stargaze.

here is a love letter to my mother, stuck right in my pocket next to
hagstones and seashells,
pennies, Tommy's lighter, a star sized sprinkle of sand, and an ochre eyelash.
a letter to the universe, a scrambled thing.

i see souls in the sky in the midst of the hummingbirds,
they are knocking at my window but i can't let them in,
too many moths in the bedroom and
i've got to get to work anyways. i swallow up my dreams.

moving stars and seashell bones,
fingerprints on the road,
manta rays on the floor
bottle caps in the dirt
jellyfishes screaming their heart out same as the tiny birds.