2 Poems by Joneve McCormick

Metaphors...

They hold the secrets of our past and future,
revealing how we create our worlds
from memories made long ago
like those of a clam and its surf;

shell and surf, as if by magic
becoming bony jaws and foam-topped milk
irritations becoming pearly teeth,
on to a mercedes with a roaring motor
we've quieted down, opening its hood…

we catch ourselves in our dramas.


I am

In the leaves
and  between
I flicker across trunks
weave ribbons of light
slither up bark
swing branch to branch
flatten and fade
gleam, upright
eternally
nothing and everything.


Bionote

Joneve McCormick is a writer, editor, translator and photographer living in Santa Barbara, California. Her poems have been widely published online and on paper. Her most recent work is published in an ebook, Three Poets: Voices from the West Coast, which includes the work of Koon Kau Woon and Changming Yuan and is available on amazon.com and Lulu. joneve@cox.net