Basket Star (Plus: The Newly Discovered 'Cocoa Frog' of Suriname)

BASKET STAR ( A type of star fish)

Lost in
a loose
psychedelic
tangle or
tango of tang-
erine limbs or
an Or
-ange organ
Sonata’s notes
whirling ar-
ound and ar-
ound or
a hazy dream,
in a spinning head,
of  a blazing forest
with orange smoke
that becomes
ochre paint
swirling in water
or a
lover’s long
red
hair;
so many routes;
so many roots
in the depths
of my mind.

THE NEWLY DISCOVERED COCOA FROG (OF SURINAME)

A cocoa- coloured frog, I am;
the Cocoa frog of Suriname
and, unlike any other frog,
I sit upon a chocolate log;
I sit upon a log and croak-oa
then SPLASH into a lake of cocoa