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Posts from the ‘POETRY’ Category

8
Jul

Aleph

I am between the leaving-taking . . .
I am in-between journey . . . 

between the 5th sacrament . . .

between mothers and the pretty daughters
before the wedding music starts but before 
the brief darkness, when the dress falls from 
the lovely flesh and the soft, silver-white bone 

of ghosts of youth and the after ghost.

Aleph,

between your thighs; the taking of sacrament
between you and me
before the closing quiet, but before the closing
of the ears to this world

to listen for the murmur,
your cellular history, before
mercurial element, before wood, water, Word . . .

birth, pain, you, me . . . 

And there is a womb,
a cage with a long divide
between that place and this . . . 
28
May

These Constant Remembrances of Remaining Matter

draft
for Mae
These soft hearts are our apology for the Earth.
To lie down in the darkness of dense dirt,
ply our fingers through the layers, leading deep
in our practice with the crumbling clay of our sleep, 
digging our way through the clay of the beautiful body
until we break fingernails in our lovemaking with Her. 

With the silly pose of stillness, our holy-held hands 
feel each other out and bond in the beginning decay,
our supple, strange, suitable vegetable selves fall
apart, underneath the barreled bodies of fallen trees
in a shady place, in the gloaming before the dark.

We all perish and leave these decorated and useless rooms 
of earthly trappings, the things we attain from birth 
like you, as a young girl with a new and pretty doll,
like you, giving the body of your own doll for the feeding.

In the end, we are the spectacular agents of our awakening
with these eyeless cups and hollow mouths we bear. 
To the flowers and trees we give the still breeze-breath
and return love to love, and life unto that spiral life. 
For, our only offer is the weak sacrament of flesh and blood
so the Earwig may eat entirely and become an immanent entity.
18
May

You are Divinity for the Techniques of this Life

for H.-

You want me to laugh?
I will laugh for insane's sake,
the insanity of it all, cry
out for it all, I will.

Yes, if it's your will, I will 
pound down the pompous, 
the fat saints and holy boys running Read moreRead more
12
May

Dream # 5

draft
A Man came to me, handed me seeds, 
said, well, this is the first lesson:
sit and soundly contemplate on strength
between legs, love below belly,
compassion for caged spirit and
give these seeds praise and plant
with your oath in that ocean, becoming
the fierce crashing sky, your pounding down
on the rolling solvency of salty waves . . .

This is how all life began and will begin.
9
May

To Purify the Darkness of Unconscious

draft
With these words I’ve been taught,
I insert for the grandeur of common women,
your legends, the Songs of your honey,
the mixing of your pleasing wine for 
my only thirst's sake;

with these words I create, hovering softly 
above the unfortunate & dying minds
is feeling them meaningful; knowing these words
are forgotten, mocking, inside of your pretty mouths,
pathetic, stuck to the high soles of lovely your shoes,
outside and beyond your lovely seeking souls
lost, your forever seeking of finer things on earth; 

I have felt apart from you, unclean
in your churches, in your family homes,
your bedrooms, while loving, creating 
all the poems written about the pious women 
and your eager greeting of greedy men 
in front of the forgotten meaning of the alter, 
and when you lie beside me and a working poem, reading 
your magazines about perfect men; perfect and happy
forever weddings to these men, and all your "how to's"
to find the future richer men, bedding the richer future men, 
and how to find what beds best to support your future 
perfect until-death-do-us-departed and lovely bodies, 
i have to believe beyond the night of this darkness;

this lust in search for the faultlessness of men,
this villainous idea which makes no room in minds
for the sacredness of a word, or a stanza’s delight;

the words I’m taught while in the darkness of longing,
is mine meditation on the splendors of your imperfect beauty,
that these words will land soundly in your hollow hearts.