Sifting Lizards

Titled Castaneda, benefits of losing one’s mind.

Sifting Lizards 

By Tyler Lucas Mobley

Informace, at risk of excluding the 

rest, finger raised distinguishing this

from that, a process arrives at Hiroshima. 

Potent void, out of nothing a knock

on your door, just dropping by, a light

like never before pours definitive unto.  

Caressed by world bosom ease away a 

breath, casting sky hooked a cloud life 

upon merry go round, spurs spontaneity.  

Your stride upright brighter than the sun, 

ocean eyes focus in as horizon lion shakes 

it’s mane, settling just where you belong.  

Laurels of My Life

Truly Grateful for all that be

Laurels of My Life

By Tyler Lucas Mobley 

Could rest all day on laurels of my life 

lounge in the safe of my memory bank 

my personal theatre replaying the hits.

Heart runs over savory to the last drop 

scent of black forest, all those passing 

eyes, fish-headed accordion serenades

baguettes become saber for all to see

taken by surprise at giant faceless babies,

that photo I’ll never see, crossing the

Bosphorus with an American girl under

each arm, my lap would know Sri Lankan 

that same week, the tremble of her touch

on that beach in Mexico, washed my feet on

holy ground, blind to what others see, felt it 

all going my way, brushed noses with what 

goes without saying, walked home after a 

Tokyo pub crawl, watched the sunrise in

your eyes always remember what they said.  

How Your Eyes Search For Mine

Those things we come to look forward to,

How Your Eyes Search For Mine 

By Tyler Lucas Mobley

How your eyes search for mine whenever you smile, 

sends my heart away then I have to chase it back. Home

in sight after 7 years at sea, treasures spill onto shore.

Puts a loudspeaker to the statue of David’s internal dialogue. 

When our eyes meet, lifetimes play out in the brevity. 

How your eyes search for mine whenever you smile,  

makes me the path of butterfly migration, an edge  

where water falls, places me on cusp of day, I’m carried

around the world, passing hellos to pageant humanity. 

I’d know they were coming, and be glad when they did,

how your eyes search for mine whenever you smile.