Monday, July 30, 2012

Tailor-made Moonless Night


Waiting 

To take measure of the dazzling 
Fabric of the universe, 

I wait out 

Beyond the needles of the pines 
For the pinholes to appear; 

Many questions on my mind but 
Only one of any substance— 

How many light years will it take 
For this threadbare body 

To pierce the heavens 
At the appointed hour 

And disappear? 


Sunday, July 29, 2012

Blown Away


The heat wave was so 
Stupefying the cicadas 

Exploded taking off 
Our heads the last I heard 

They were high- 
Tailing it, frazzled 

By dodging sparrows 
Pine to pine. 



Friday, July 27, 2012

Lackadaisical


I don’t know about this 
She loves me, she loves me not 
Love-hate business but all this talk 
Of hard work making America 
What it is makes me want 
To lie stark naked 
In a field full of flowers 
And peel off her clothes 
One-by-one till she lies there 
Doing nothing fully 
Exposed too.




Wednesday, July 25, 2012

After the Fall (for the Zillionth Time)


To start again 
At the beginning 
With the world upright 

And everything just 
As it was 
In the beginning 

That would be how 
To end things anew, 
Another beginning. 




Monday, July 23, 2012

Blaze of Glory, Poet


The lamp 

Of the lady of night has gone out 
But it’s left a flame 

That still licks your wounds. 


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