Filed Under: Poetry
I want to list the things I love with you
the humor of dogs
artificial light on rainy days
a perfect pear
the skin of your arms, legs + back
I want to lie down with you
speak to you through action
engage in deep silent discussion
sing in unison
say everything through passionate silence
I want to laugh with you
revel in the way your cheeks dimple
jest devious inappropriate things
crack-wise
delight in the humor of the world’s folly
these lists and things of and with you
please god take them all
all these unrequited, overtly strong, frivolous things
the root of my impulsive recklessness
compelling a desire to feel numb
Passing East to West to East Side
We’re always East or West of Somewhere
Delineations, small bits and digits
to give us comfort.
I’m East.
I’m West.
I’m I. Comfort.
Here, I say, take this finger. It’s a digit, too.
No thanks, you say, it’s shriveled and smells funny.
That’s true, I say. But that means its precious. One day we’ll be shriveled […]
Perfect moments. Quiet walks through parks, Central and Hyde.
Remembrances and visions of ghosts.
The void was plain in those spaces and I embraced it as though it was the time of my death.
Death. Embrace of the void. Acceptance most plain and final and joyous.
We are nothing. We are everything. We are all and none and in […]
Shield and Armour - Mask of Order peeling away, blistered failing paint
And beneath, the rust and essence, hairy-naked-madness, lusty passion and lonesome Honesty
Broken, mumbling, solitary Honesty
smiling with broken teeth, arrestingly beautiful and stinking
I pray to my God - bent low, prostrate before It, pleading, laughing
Crying for audience - Please God! Stab my Loves to […]