Honey goes candy in the condiment cupboard, Unwax it. unplug it, What you discover in August nights, Like children walled in and papers drawn up for life – That kind of truth you can’t crack with a knife. Smoke from the wood fire, unholy spires, And can you surmise from which well you have drawn […]
Tulip - Augie March
Are you lit from the inside, is that why your teeth are bright? You smile as the sun sets on the window, and the car fills up with light, Make a smile tulip, don’t think of me as something that’s passed, I am not written in the book, but I intend to last… And as […]
There is no such place, o yes I have seen it too Just a little different from how you do, A river winding blue among the dunes and a marble bed A sun that doesn’t set but settles. There is no such place. If I lower mine to yours would you kiss me on the […]
To be, A bee, a moth. Four wings spread for the soft last touch Of glory sun, Remembering blood plums and lips and lemons – One hundred different suns In a hundred different heavens. Spied from a rowboat – Stroke, nought is spoken, Before you know it, the spell is broken, You might wonder where […]
What do the men say To the women when they lay down at night. All naked of arms from the old imagined fight? And how do the women hear? In kind and in likeness of light – "In kindness you needn’t and neither do I, we are both of us capable of flight", And as […]
