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grasp-catching your words, happinesses
(a million koi fishes,
sleek-flippered and curvy)
slip; cover.
smiles - ships skimming -
shun touches;
a second of hugging so precious.
(a million koi fishes,
sleek-flippered and curvy)
slip; cover.
smiles - ships skimming -
shun touches;
a second of hugging so precious.
Literature
I'll not contain you
Your legs are quivering bells, my darling--
the bells of a church or the belly of a flower,
they laugh at the touch of my hard tongue,
but I'll not contain you.
I'll not contain you,
though I found you in the earth,
smelling of earth, and your hot
weary hands pushed themselves into mine,
I'll not contain you.
A thin film of years
will grow over your vivid knees
and my restless hands.
We will hunt our quick lives
like packs of silverfish,
and scoop them out of the water,
like river stones.
I will hold these stones in my hand,
still I will not contain you.
At home, the yellowing curtain
of sky sighs before giving itself
to d
Literature
On Ariadne
the loom of lust:
In the heart of your ears,
and till your outstretched feet
the spinner of mad red has corrupted,
her fingers like dragonflies threading
bark and twined grass into your hair
around your sure wrists, your angled feet
'this is love, my shining bride-to be,' you whisper,
and disappear with her among billowing black sails.
the abandonment of Ariadne:
He wooed you in a labyrinth of spinners,
and wed you in black sails, beneath jealous skies.
'Sleep and tomorrow you shall be Queen of Athens,'
Ariadne, sleep, tomorrow the sun will shine,
and the sea will ebb sympathetic away from
these deserted sands.
the death, or descent:
Spin,
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On Women: My Grandmother II
The day the world broke open
was the day her husband said he had enough love to cover
her and the other men she loved a thousand times more.
That was the day the world was plucked off a cosmic branch and
smashed open like fruit on a rock.
Molten lava spilling over eternity like the day every babe learned to cry.
This- it seems, is the nature of love.
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NaPoWriMo 2011! Day 2.
I'm so happy with this one, happier than I've been with a whole poem for a long time. Possibly because I'm in need of sleep.
So my intentions for this April: finish, unlike last year. Put considerable thought into each poem, unlike last year. Let loose a little bit. Have fun a little bit.
This will not become another obligation, but a release to look forward to at the end of the day. or whenever.
I'm so happy with this one, happier than I've been with a whole poem for a long time. Possibly because I'm in need of sleep.
So my intentions for this April: finish, unlike last year. Put considerable thought into each poem, unlike last year. Let loose a little bit. Have fun a little bit.
This will not become another obligation, but a release to look forward to at the end of the day. or whenever.
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Your imagery is fresh and fluid. Simple concept, beautifully executed.