Andrew Badger’s most recent poem to appear here was My Days (May 2014).

Creation
By Andrew Badger

Slow motion memories
captured in time-lapse
cinema

twirl like misplaced
dervishes in steamy
dreams

by morning every
sensual detail
forgotten

lost in twisted knotted
malodorous
sheets.

Even daytime
reveries host
spinning

prayer-wheel flashes
of vague scenes
strobing

distorted images
of ancient kin and
friends

coiled in random
acts and times and
vistas.

But at the touch
of lover’s hands
the sound of amorous
laughter

senses open to the
sun-lit day and aromas
drift by on morning
breezes

that heal the soul
restore the tempo
scent and nature of

reality.