Saturday, January 17, 2009

a world of it

maybe

2.
crossroads doesn't mean always what you think.

paint lace on the negligee and the lady's still a lady:
hold ear to that statue and hear
the whispering ocean,

the wax overlay of it
melt, slight, against you.

hold up beauty:
hold up those lips
as if to rain--

re-freshen
like petals under gathering dew.

3.
beauty a tragic
circularity.

that is why i dream possess of
you
ugly or lovely,
sweet bird--
to never lay 

your 
singing head down
in dirt.

hold you up,
back
beyond 
these meat

hooks of mine.


1.
what might have been:
a chocolate rabbit,
solid straight through.

don't leave your candy bean
to dissolve my love
in this rain--

my tongue,
my hollow mouth
will hold you--


my lips will
deny themselves
your name.

press 
lids closed.
taste
that 
longing flavor.

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