PEACH
I drink your milkshake
I eat
your peach
nibble your
pièce de résistance
so
elegantly
TS Eliot intelligently
there is
no resistance
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
PEACH
I drink your milkshake
I eat
your peach
nibble your
pièce de résistance
so
elegantly
TS Eliot intelligently
there is
no resistance
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
the magician likes
disappearing tricks
convincing us
he has
nothing up
his sleeve
but we are
so being so
distracted every
moment of the poem
we do not notice
when or how
his exactly
our disappearance
is engineered
‘
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
last night
was not easy
this long, sweltering
Summer’s day
will not be
easy
tonight
will be
a tiny bit
easier
all these days
thinking, writing, waiting
for you
who are
on a path
to me
and neither of us
know it yet
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
I wanted to write a great love poem for you
but Donald Trump stole
all the best words
not that you would think it
examining his lexicon
and hearing him
show a
seductiveness
herd us a
wrecking ball.
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
EQUAL TAKE
soft wetness
but dark
smoldering
opposites play havoc
with each other
as I enter
Oh has there even been
a wilder
vortex
a more measured
trade (equal give
equal take)
.
.
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
in a world
of awful consequences
I cherish
my angels
they
smite me
with kindness
dazzle me
with light
such that
I stumble
and they
are there
sometimes
to
catch me
this cycle repeating
until we run
out of time
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
CHESS
the game
is over
the pieces
are back on
their starting
squares
those that
were captured
are
restored
29 Tuesday Nov 2016
do not take
the river for granted
do not let
the sky ever
become passé
touch your lover
like they are new
they are
stranger
for we ourselves
are in
constant change
29 Tuesday Nov 2016
29 Tuesday Nov 2016
slower than a
statue
slower than a library
slower
than tectonic plate
river
of glass
so slow
the world forgets
what it is
before
it has even begun