Eighteen typed pages

divided into seven titled sections
drowned in the disembodiment of light
unseasonable perhaps, irretrievable

strolling about my nights with Gods help
for fear of encountering my own reflection in the dark
in a whisper, a dash in certain paragraphs

the putting off, the festivals inside my head
stretched into spans of metaphors
lunar pity, quivering a pair of arteries

affected spirituality, stalking every sentence
every garden – reviving thirty eight warty leafs
for the stubborn circumstance

you, shaking your head from side to side
humming vocables like local saints
precipitous, this love colliding me to come forth

to type words, mud trapped beneath these slopes

to be continued

Tell him

he’s my reason
for this lack of focus
my sense of balance lost in a locust

religiously discovering
his sweat
at the nape of my neck

tell himĀ 
that my gaze if fixed
on his shoes his walk

i am in love for the very first time
with a man that so frequently arrives
resuscitating me from these falls

tell him we have found relief
to tell his doctor and my many too
that our stomachs have seen enough blues

tell him
their lateness
is like bad art hanging in waiting rooms

P.S.

tell him
i will be wearing a pinstripe suit
the one my mother gave me
the one i stashed
when its zipper snapped in two

tell him
the train leaves at two
to avoid traffic
especially exit ninety two

tell him
one more thing
just one more thing

that i love him
to please hurry
so we can finish his book
paint a story or two

The Human Touch

Here he draws
Like his mother he draws
Seeking solution he draws
At the edge where limp things stay afraid
Humans caged instead

Free art-form instills power
Power to colorfully be
Without exploiting the traceable race
Art yourself with love and peace evermore

Illustrations by Gavin

Terrific Boredom

Many compositions marrying ends
Gallantly contemplating editions
Bestseller Pulitzer please
Mister publisher fancy sir
Before I forget and stray
Art iv sedates me sane
Punctuated spelling transfusions
Has my fatal convinced you yet
While you analyze my pallid freckled face
Notating your simple pleasure funds
Know your body language draws beds
Reading your hardcover suspense
Bourbon . . No thank you I don’t drink
Can you settle down your shame
Your cat is hissing you insane
Explain Kerouac gently now
Pat me his mouth wide shut luck
With symphony lyrical laughter
For the fickle pen characters
The roads
The rum
Dignity being my self centered giant great
Pictorial elegance regressed and for the rest of my days

Femme Fatale

Silvering thighs
Dressed afraid sometimes
Stretching my face
My useless nose

Sensory nightfall guillotine
Dolorous you see
Absolute sacrificing personalities

Beckoning these words
Seeding so effortlessly
For the bawdy tongued freedom

Where mud thickens your feet
Unwrapping bearded cavaliers
The priceless ego maniacs

Loving wombs in multitudes
Reading Poe lamenting aprons
Viewing their blues

Your kind is known
Nail biting fool
Let me recite you to squirm
My tableau cornered palpitations

Seducing your juggled scheme
O’ why so bashful gentleman
On my rugs you’ve knelt

Cigar tasting this revolution
Hinging isn’t it
Polarizing was us two

Terrifying isn’t it
My poetry of truth
Lipsticking your concupiscent suicide

Ask me why I did it
Why I faked it with you
Well tell you spirit

Poe was romantic
Macabre was you
And cryptography darling revealed I was never literally in love with you

Dedicating all of my words above to the ingenious plague of poetry, soaring ever so mighty sternum-stitching my pride to be nothing but madly in love with my madding madness. Bid you all the looniest of sleeps, peace evermore.