BINARY

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binary, Metaphysical, philosophical, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, wordplay, writing

BINARY

one zero
two

go
figure

I am
lover

conduit
of pleasure

I am poet
receptacle
of pain

but why so
glib with all these binaries

why structure the cosmos
in terms of fundamental oppositions

man
woman

black
white

if
metaphors polarize

it also
dissolves

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

ALIEN POETRY BOTH BIG AND SMALL

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alien. writing, Metaphysical, Multiverse, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, Universe

ALIEN POETRY BOTH BIG AND SMALL

Uppercase, lowercase
Alien poetry is
both

BIG
and
small

smaller than
a sliver of shortest wavelength

yet
big enough
to condense the Multiverse
to the size
of a period, or
semi-colon

were it that
the poem ever stops

were that
it ever ends

AS YOU CAN SEE

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Ending, Metaphysical, metapoetic, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, wit, wordplay, writing

AS YOU CAN SEE

as you can see
this poem is
biodegradable

look at it
disappearing before
your eyes

or
perhaps

it’s you
that’s biodegradable,

disappearing

goodbye!

TO DECEIVE

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female, loss, love, Metaphor, Metaphysical, philosophical, poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, wordplay, writing

TO DECEIVE

wanted to
read you like
a book

but there were
missing pages,
no final chapter

so I decided
to write you
Ike a book

one in which
I am not
even a
character

and, as
sort-of-
antiheroine
your dialogue
disappoints, actions
flatter
to deceive

TO THE POINT

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evolution, Metaphysical, Naughty, poem, poetry, Twist in the tail

TO THE POINT

It took my species
millions of years
to evolve to the point where
our brains developed
perceptual algorithms
to allow
us to
see

what I see now: you
standing before me
umming and aaaing
from foot to
foot
shifting uncomfortably

millions of years to
get to this point
where I can see
you perfectly and
yet

you refuse
to recognize this
miracle of
perceptual evolution

deign
to take
your clothes off

INSIDE OUT

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Consciousness, Metaphor, Metaphysical, metapoetic, philosophy, poem, poetry, writing

INSIDE OUT

no,Descartes,
consciousness is
not an am

consciousness is
becoming, a negation

is created out of
its difference
from
all things

it is the
snake of
time

swallowing beginning
in act of ending
(wondering if this is
not just simply
the wrong
perspective

the whole three acts
turned
inside out)

ANNULMENT

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dark, death, Life, Light, Metaphysical, poem, poetry

ANNULMENT

death be
not divorce

be more
annulment

of all
you ever were

but wait, the air
so cold

cold as the bleakest
darkest spot of
the Universe

sub-zero breath of
your new lover your
new true partner

finally, yes,
the perfect ice
of this embrace

it gets to last
for all eternity
(there
foreshadowed

in every word
dark muse

of life itself, all
its 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

MY LITTLE POEM

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Metaphysical, poem, poetry, spiritual

MY LITTLE POEM

the soul
tastes, drinks

the soul forgets

what the soul is
we cannot say

so little
it knows
about
itself

so little to
say
about what
it was