BETTER PLACE

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Beauty, Ending, erotic, innuendo, Life, loss, love, Metaphysical, mythology, Ocean, poem, poetry, sea, Sexual innuendo, sexual symbolism, spiritual, transformation, Water, Water power astrological, woman, wordplay

BETTER PLACE
(for Francesca)

the Saint you were named after
loved little animals

they would lead him
to their little homes
invite him
to explore
their tiny burrows

it was Eden in my bedroom
and like our beautiful first parents
we failed to realize it

both of us born under that
divided, contrary, most transcendent
sign of the fish

it was
always like
when we got naked

deep ocean water filled the room
which, as we no longer
breathed air, only breathed
and devoured each other,
was no bother

we were swimming toward a mirage
swimming together towards
promise of something perfect
something infinitely better

when our vessel foundered
found itself
between Scylla and
Charybdis

between a
rock and
a hard place

and we
let the self-
contained fantasy slip away

lost our
special sea identities

left that deep
deep
special, sensual garden

for some supposed, half-
promised, presumed better place

SLEEK CREATURE

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Beauty, Desire, poem, poetry

SLEEK CREATURE

a sleek shy creature
sidled into my office

spoke sparingly
yet with such laser focus
was scared she would
set fire to
and I would burn
with all my papers

still sadness however
(unless secret happiness and
ecstasy she keeping
tight under
her vest, close
to her chest)

I drool at the thought
that we find a place
where
truth or
dare
we do not care
if legion upon legion
of intimate, impertinent
questions

and in a flash (mercurial her
star and
therefore her nature)

she is gone
both of her, she and her
astral, silver messenger twin,
two
in one

and
I am back to
rewind and reset

first page of my
compendium of signs
thesaurus of code and
its interpretation

of the
innocuous, purely Socratic
methodical sign

there being
no subtext here of
a sexual kind

absolutely no such
linguistic subtext to
take into reckoning

R IS FOR RAINBOW

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Beauty, Biblical, Iconic, poem, poetry, rainbow, symbolism, woman

R IS FOR RAINBOW

rainbow came
of Biblical proportions
blazing through
the grey heavens

like a horseshoe of hope

of which you
promised me a picture
since I had neglected
to bring
my camera

but when the picture arrived
it was an old one
of you
that you had already sent me

and I had
previously deleted

nothing startlingly new
or deeply revealing

luckily the rainbow had burnt itself
(so intense the colour)
into my nature
(both hardware
and
software)

that I will be filled
with presence for
a reasonably long time

MYSTERY

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Beauty, Magic, poem, poetry, woman

MYSTERY

the mystery
and magic of
your body

outwizards me
leaves me
speechless

so very bad
for casting spells

ANGEL

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Beauty, love, poem, poetry, song, spiritual, woman

ANGEL

saw you in
Church singing
like an angel

your dress
as blue
as the sky, No
as blue
as the sea

your voice, soaring
above the clouds,

so moved
the Sun, the Moon,
the stars, the planets

they would rather
look down
at you
listen enraptured

than have
anything to do with my poetry

INTERLOCK

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Beauty, Desire, erotic, female, innuendo, Language, love, Metaphor, Metaphysical, philosophy, poem, poetry, poststructuralist, relativity, Sexual, Sexual innuendo, woman, wordplay, writing

INTERLOCK

let me walk you
through the procedure

no need to run
we can go so
so slowly
watch the snails
zoom past at
relative speed

no need to
use that hard Newtonian
word “velocity”
later physics Newtonian
notions of freedom,
friction and resistance
opposite and
opposing forces
will all have
their place
all have their say

speaking of which
let me talk you
through everything
devise a poetry of
delay and deferral
to celebrate
every centimeter
indulge (in measure imperial)
every square
inch of your body

I say inch, but I am of course,
measuring in circles, and ellipses
and one-sided Möbius strips
that perfectly interlock

MUSE

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Beauty, love, Muse, poem, poetry, writing

MUSE

every night I
die alone

but my Muse
finds me
screaming: “write,
write,
write!”

brings me
back to life

(it has always
puzzled me
why she
has to be
so
beautiful)

AT HEART

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angels, Beauty, death, poem, poetry, worms

AT HEART

the singing of worms

the singing
of angels

who cannot say that
they aren’t both myths

equally at heart
glorious fables

TO DIE FOR

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Beauty, love, poem, poetry

TO DIE FOR

in the supermarket
I purchased an exquisitely beautiful object

an Italian frying pan with which
I hope to cook for you

dishes from the length and
breadth of the Italian peninsula
from Milan and Turin, Genoa,
Florence, Venice, Rome

the round you out a little
remove rough edges

so when we go naught to sixty
full-blooded Maserati

your road-holding will be unparalleled
your torque a thing to die for, thing of wildest dream

GOD SEES YOU

Tags

Beauty, poem, poetry

GOD SEES YOU

God sees you
naked
watches you with pure care
(far less personal interest
than if, by comparison
I were watching)

pulled from oiling the machine
that is, that runs the Universe,
being the
spirit that sees to
the execution of
a plan billion years in
the thinking

taking time out to
observe, preserve
your beauty

Oh what a pleasure!
What a pleasure!