| Puppy Love At my pool, my friend, the award winning writer, recites poems she wrote in childhood of love lost, it’s rhythms and basic patterns, “You’re wonderful.” “We’re special.” “You broke my heart.” “Why?” (except they rhymed). We laugh, but then I remember how excruciating it was to be young, and so sure of one’s devotion. Jehovah Her plain stretches out, Unfolds, extends, becomes, Unending, Belligerently constant, Shimmering in her austere beauty, "I am" she bellows, "Here and all around you," Relentless.
Luna Full moon haze, I howl for romance and want to plunder, Into the blackness of unknown scent and texture, Luna, a woven mystery, solid yet ethereal, Want to put my hands through you, And still find my fingers.
Liquid Gold (not about furniture polish) Darkened fragrance speaks of gold and not quite satiation, To the brink, just shy of bold, Molten juices of passion's wine, Swirl beneath straight lace, white gloves and pearls, As Cleopatra's river rumbles, Beneath the candled table. Cosmic Hopscotch Thoughts move across the mind, Creep, trudge, run, take flight, Slide, skate, or shimmy across gray matter, Jumping the synaptic spaces, like microscopic children, playing connect the dots with puddles, like God, skipping through the galaxies, At play in a field of stars and atoms. |
Autumn Prelude These bright days of cool white light, Before brown and frost, Lay their thick heads down, Autumn's fire still a spark, In roots deeply thrust, Prelude to Summer's fiery funeral gown.
Moon Dance On the surface of the moon, There are many discoveries, On your lips, also a few, On the surface of your heart There are many craters, In which I am falling.
Centerfolds & Butterflies Or Mr. Microscope Gets His Kicks The piercing of souls and minds, pinned down butterflies, their death of no consequence, naked, exposed, splayed beauty, once fluttering heartbeats in the sun, now dusty, preserved, labeled, smothered heartbeats among the many, victims of fascination.
Chaos Theory The graphic of a fractal, Beautiful in its perfect redundancy, Reliable, Opening, Breathing out its repetition, Eternally, Yawning its mathamatics, Into infinity. |