Poétique

Once Less

Nothing defines it
What more exquisite
Expressiveness
Than the heart letter
Inscribed yet inkless
A mystic calligraphist
Lip prints on paper skin
It makes the universal
Personal within travel
Past the gallows
Of our woes
Up the stairwell
Into the window of a
Writer’s love well from another page
In the crevice of your back
Or another animal
State of being vining
Capturing the complexity
Of a love with more richness
Lust and dimension
Unclouded just enough to make us feel
At once less alone
More whole in our trust
Understanding ourselves
Pressed between us
In a mass of
Penetrating light

Love One Another

A little full on the outside
Of statistics grumbling over
To start I found myself fumbling
Into piles of nothing
But discovered upside down
Numbers that bear light
Streamlined to shine
Their prominence
Proven distrustful
Interesting
As any human story
Can be when soon reduced
To just a number

Bring out the tools
Grab your box
Swing open wide
The locked french doors
Even a garage
Stocked full of
Every nut and bolt
Has no true story
Left to tell
Without a drill
For there are
Two very definite sides
To every persons tale
In our community
This is us

Love one another
Isn’t just a phrase
We settle on to raise
Awareness for the
Tall boxed city lights
Made up of skylines
What’s the use for
Electric blankets we can’t
Plug in to keep us warm
What’s the point
If all we fight for
Is just for fighting
Left and right

There will be nothing
Left to hold

Intimacy

Intimacy doesn’t always
Hide softly behind
Desires that run
Wild like horses
Tempered cooly
Closeness can make a home
Beautiful but
Absent still if you don’t
Act on it
Ask for it
Wipe your feet on the mat
Just like the way
You can’t get an education
Hanging out on the railroad
Tripping over your feelings
Intensely wide ties that might
Open your eyes
Cherish falling on your face
Tripping over your words
For what might taste salty
Could also be your soul mate
If you use your tongue right
Speak your mind

I’ve never seen
Such a beautiful creature

Heavy Breathing

The natural world
Or what we so soulfully
Found ourselves
Embracing of it
Sprawled itself out
On our backs
Against a porch of
Buoyant emotions

The concrete outdoor city
Sun stroked in downtown hovers
Towering over our
Dual natures
The only permanent
Naked reliance for sanity
Between us remains on beds of menthe

Turning every page
In your book I look to find
A noble moon peeking
Through your telescope
Up or down it is always
So proximate
So unassailably radiant

Every burning primeval star
Shot ‘cross a black light neon sky
Alights our mossy beds

Cradled rest our heads
Are both collapsed
Onto a pillow of centuries
With cedar ringing in our ears
As our whispered witness
To countless birds
Chirping echoless disappear
In between unspoken
Human heartaches

Two each our own

You bloom like amaryllis
Lush with red light deep inside me
As the first bewilderments
Of unabashed heavy breathing shakes
Panting sounds between us
Twisting over late night lovers

Clever has absent heard
Even of this
A sound for words
Which there are never

Your Hand

In this distance where you stand
I can barely see your hand
Yet somehow strangely close to you
Somehow scarcely knowing you
Somehow I attempt to understand

Inspired by the swan
Graceful as her silhouette
Becomes the dawn
As the wind caresses
All that he demands
I reach beyond the distance
For your hand

Full of Daisy’s

I am no one
Who is writing
As if I’m someone
Autonomy at its best
Reeling at how to
Write the rest
Right what’s left

You remember me
Sitting in a chair on a
Cold black moon
Hiding behind the epilepsy
Of your crescent collapse
Hard to forget elliptical
Line dancing
Over a bottle of moonshine
Something like that

When the sheets rise
You can see it all
Like a ladder looking over
The heart of your Great Wall
And every speck of dirt
That clings to each stone
Is a catalyst to our
Flashback kiss

Tumble down
Roll around
Catch the air why don’t you
Shuffle
Underneath the darkness
Amidst the horror where
At the end of the yellow brick road
You’ll find me in a field
Full of daisy’s
Reminiscing about us
Sopping wet with love

What This Means

I was walking on
The back of a bumblebee

A longing stretch
Of yellow and black

A card of tarot
Shown to me
Randomly in step
On the sidewalk

Many to the left of me
Equal to the right

Yet the face that stands
In front of me
Is yours

Tell me what this means

So I Can

“I just don’t have time.”
He said

I remember when we did
Oh yes, I remember
How great it was then

Crack the cocoon
And remind me again
Remind us

Just let me now when
So I can return

So I can…

In Her Tree

I fear that in this
Somehow founded animosity
A stain has merged
Into a monstrosity
And I am climbing
Every limb of your tree

The tide that passes
Through you
Is heavy as the night
Can weigh upon us
And my soul
Is raw from tire
Ripped with spite

I am empty from
The energy I spend
To make things whole again
And all the tears
I cry that bleed
Are extracted
Pushed out
Rejected antidotes

Funny how the words
I feel at once
Can root from hurt
When all that I had planted
In was love
Turned spoiled soil

The carriage is empty

She is beautiful to me
But I’m exhausted from her tree

T-Shirt

If you say it
You have to wear it
Like a garment
In front of whom ever
You said it to
Be OK with them
Framing an opinion
About it

We wear our words
It’s how we’re heard
In the eyes of others
If you’re strong enough
To say it
Remember
You’ll be stronger
Because you did
You may be saying
The things
That no one else is and
It may feel like shit
But just say it!
It’s OK to break your own heart

A little bit

If the world that you’re making
Is a better place
To be in
Because of it

The auspicious time
Of the Solstice
Has been revered
In ancient wisdom
Powerful times
Embrace the
Changes in our lives

Honor the cycles
In a brilliant light
Crystalline
And cosmic sight
Directed at the center
Of the Earth of your core
Consciousness says

We wear our words
It’s how we’re heard
In the eyes of others
And if you’re strong enough
To say it
Remember
It’s how you convey it
You’ll be stronger
In the long run
Because you did