By. Manic Swamp Doctors

1.
Like the lid snapped off
the melatonin bottle.

2.
Round and white
like an afternoon sun
made of dry ice.

3.
Drifting through the sky like a balloon
loosed from a careless child's
hand.

4.
My dog's favorite frisbee
stuck in the cedar branches.

5.
Full and ripe
like a puffball mushroon
in a cow pasture.

6.
In a dark corner of the basement
the animatronic skeleton, saying
"Oh, look at me, what do I care?"

7.
Falls
like a snowflake from the sky
and I catch it on my tongue.

8.
A crystallised crispy crisp
my fingertips dusted
like a butterfly's wings.

9.
Shines in the sky
like the head of a snowman exploring
the untouchable realm.

10.
A bubble of froth dropped
from the lips of a lunatic God.

11.
Filled with nothingness
like the white hair tie tossed carelessly
on her dresser after a long day.

12.
Gleams stark and bright
like the white cast embedded in your vision
after a flash photograph.

13.
Grossly plain
the way clocks are
in hospitals and classrooms, desperately
stared at to fill time.

14.
Opens like a portal
into the mind
of the arctic.

15.
An egg
its yoke unbrokem despite the malformed shell.

16.
The stain of the coffee mug
on the mahogany table that slpatters outward
in drops of light - stars
on the counter.

17.
You extract your own wisdom tooth
and look at it from the top down -
it is the moon.

18.
Her face, soft with wisdom
watches over me.

19.
A dissolvable tablet -
take once a night.