Distant Song

The one thing
Seems always searching
Sparkle of hope in your eyes
All built up in excitement
Perfect fingers
Perfect toes
Gorgeous eyes
Gorgeous nose

My fingers burn to stroke
My lips missing every detail
Of your secret
My palm can feel the breath
In your stomach
Little hairs echo hello
On my skin
And leave an imprint long
And stretching
Lost in waiting
For everything wanted

On the bus
Pretending to focus
Your canvas at the edge of my mouth
Our eyelashes combing one another
All the trees around us are melting

It’s just like I pictured
And nothing is framed
As I thought it would be

I will wait
For fate to reveal itself
To conjure up the muscle
Behind what is patient for me
Tolerant for us

When can I touch you
I’ve been tempted so long
When does the labyrinth
Open doors distant song

© GÄ

Ageless

Walking through
The back door
Of existence
We enter in with
Agelessness
As I find you
Lounging on a couch
Comfortably spread out
A place for us to
Remember where
We fit the pieces
Together
Feet up
Fan out on your hair
Eyes stare
Blinking unaware
Of what we were before
Just what we are now
I find myself
Without a care
Burying my face
In the holiday of
Your lap
Laughing at everything
We forgot
What day is it?
What time did we say
We’d be there?
I love spaghetti
But not as much as
I love you
Or the way this feels
Dusting off the past
Before it ever happens
I’m not hungry for anything

You said
Thinking about
If I care too much
Is lost on the avenue
Somewhere in the middle
Of the Atlantic
Hanging like a drape
Round the window
Of some absentminded curtain
Blowing freely
You’ve never given me a reason
To hide behind the mist
And the words we share
Always taste sweeter
When we kiss

© GÄ

Shhh…

As I caress the silken warmth
Of your hands
Listen to the breath
That breathes the air
That blows the sand

Beyond us and below us
Above us and before us
Touch me again
Fold your arms around me
Climb inside me

And then…

Reach outstretched—
Engulfed beneath we
Come up for air
So indiscreetly

Accept this sweet incarnadine
So free, so delicate, so gently

Releasing all the pain
Breathe in and out again
Push into calm devotion
Divine carefree emotion

In a hot spring
Diving deep and in between
Cleaving in the cave
Of loves ravine

Hush now
Whispers here to comfort you
I’ll strum your hairs
Slip into dreams of palest blue

© GÄ

Night Steps

Kissing water
Onto the citadel
Out splashing
The fish
New glistening
On wet lips
Answers come
In tidal waves
Never quite empty
Always quite full

Will you take a drink
From this waterfall
Are you thirsty
Enough to quench
Is there something less arid
Do the currents abed
Is this our moment
Next to black
Granules

If you were sand
My head would dip lovingly
Into your dune

If you were outer space
My heart would hang brightly
Over your moon

If you were ocean
My hands would hold lightly
Buckets of you

If you were a cyclone
My blood would run hotly
With airwaves in tune
Over your radio
Singing la la la la la
Humming da da da da
Wind chimes

Was that a miracle
On the hill?
Will you bring roses
To my dreams?
Possibly wrap your arms
Around my screams?

But really

I don’t actually want to scream
I’m handing you my bones
A sacred skeleton key
I just want to know you
Will you
Come climb the
Satin blue ivy
Walk the night steps
Crawling up the mosslike green
Into a bed
Where you can
Rest here next to me?

© GÄ

Keep My Love

If you keep my love
You will remain in my love
Just as I have kept your love
We will remain in this love

Into a bird precisely because
You have been love
Given this love
The gods are generous
In love

In this way
I have loved to avoid anger
In this way
I have loved to avoid fear
In this way
I cannot avoid excitement

This the very love that
Prompts my wings from
A nesting place deep inside

This the very love
That shuttles me out
Past the neon signs
At midnight

If you keep my love
You will remain in my love

© GÄ

Speechless

Speechless
I was found
Now
Speechless
I am sore

This is
The story of
How I lost
The graph
To my most
Intimate design

Protected
Broken my duality
The reflection
Unfound

Teasing
My throttle
Black creeping
Disguise

You mastered
The love
Didn’t you
You conquerer
Unforgiving taker

I want to
Slide digits
Against the back
Inside
The open crack
In me

Touch
The hidden
Caged glowing
How it bubbles
Oh how it
Rises

Soothe the
Separation
Mend it with
Friends and
Warm honey
Sleepless
Sweetness

Newfound land
Spoken
Hearts command
A common place
For
Waiting on an
Island
In a speechless
Reservoir

Silence speaks
A thousand
Words

© GÄ

The Letter

In not so many words
I let you in
I led you in
With not so many kisses
Just the same
And so you came
With your twinkle
Your disguise
You snuck right in
To my surprise
I gave a tilt
A slight romance
A one way chance

But oh too far
The letter pushed
You out the door
Before I knew
What I could harbor
If your presence
Was not
Savory in distance

“I’m open I’ll back off”
Means nothing more
Than just false action
If there isn’t a reaction
To the ploy
No satisfaction
For the all too ready boy

So I dipped in
To take a swim
In someone else’s kind of pond
Someone quite fond
Of passion
Tearing open my french doors

The heat attraction
Magnetized our interaction
And the cup did runneth over
With the scent of our distraction
To each other
This in arms
Hanging off the bed
Be it no alarm that could repeat
Our deep enticement

© GÄ

Imperial

Robes flowing on the ground
Sprigs of pine caught up in threads
As we’re dragging them around
And your crown is full of light
As is the blood red love
That beats in rhythms
Round from hand to hand
Back and forth
From sleeve to sleeve

Were it not the stones
That built our castle
Thorns from the roses
Swords and canes in alabaster
Our tongues would not be tied
Behind the curtains that
Reside around our bed

Off with their head is not
The company we keep
A passionate land ruled by
Bees and flowers sweet
Beneath our feet bare often too
Though in our chambers
There are shoes we choose
To walk about said lands
Where dirt and ocean create sands
For us to honor it in bare
What dark and light
Make fire and water a trinity
In the jewel of a heartfelt
Tapestry of which we wear

Does the tempest mend the fold
Do the fields make young of old
Our memories returned in lives of past
Lived as one though moonlit streams
Unite at harvest so does our sun

As the ebb and flow will crash
Against the edges of our wrath
Made up of dreams that find
The surface to an out of body sling
That swings us up by ribbons late
In the early days of May
While poles of promise dress
Our bodies suspended cast in light
On one side crystal clear
The other black as night

Call out the birds by wing and beak
The talons of our feathered fleet
Our spirits free from carrion
In wounded ways
Our robes display the casual
Twilight that our stars have
Ne’er displayed in such a way
Astronomers have captured to portray

Then and there the Emperor
Takes the blood red heart and hand
Of Empress standing at the edge
Of cavalier concerns upon the ledge
Where honeypots are kept at bay
Like memories of alchemy
We are the archetype
Beyond the tailors seam

© GÄ

This

This
Transparent
Understanding

This
With you

Lucid ocean
Of feeling
It rises
Quakes to my
Disguise

In utter
Stillness
Below my breath

This
Gentle wavering
Of lost inside
Comfort

Resting between
Water and my nose

In displacement
Happiness exists
But without ground

I am
Sweating
In truth

No vocal temperature
Elegant texture

Delicate nest
This
This is
My headrest

© GÄ

Cries at the Moon

I fell asleep
To her cries
At the moon
She and she
In an intimate
Spoon

I heard angels
Awake in her voice
Softly carrying
Her magic
Like wings
Sweetly nourishing
Her delicate song

Hush now
Though a presence
Is near
Light wants not
To embellish
A guard driven fear

Oh so benevolent
In airs gentle loom
Does ear sit
To our cries
At the moon

© GÄ