Showing posts with label funny how love is. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funny how love is. Show all posts

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Placed As Some (Extravagance)


Unearthed
the most beautiful boy
asleep in the beaming
of a smiling red moon
like a butterfly
come to rest (doesn't need the love of the world)
on a still leaf (doesn't need the twists and turns)
before flying (doesn't need anything a thousandfold)
to the future (just a need a sun that burns)

A bit of my weeping wine
a bit of chatter in the 
noonday sunshine
and some filth and laughter
mad enough still for love
and some strange manner of living
to be the catcher
when you're laughing
when you fall
the punchline
on my sleeve
talks of dreams
in the morning rides
from night to day 
as Sinatra sings
let's get lost
chet is so boss
but due without the
personality
a thousand notes will help 
you see
oh my heart
does it need
some connection
satisfaction
my man in man
zooms in 
to take heed
and smoke
blooms.





Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Love in the Moonlight

Two statues
for years
on pedestals in a park.
on permanent parade.
110 in the shade
days go on
and on the same,
the seasons revolve
around the two of them.
like flowers around
the sun
no heliotrophic action
for all the stillness
of nature
to be undone.
How history passes
them by
corrosion grows
through their
eyes.
no need for faith
even if the
seas rise.
They stare
at one another
ever steady
in any weather
white and chalk
and green and gray
until one night
when lightning strikes
animated arms
and shields and books
wrestle free
amongst the trees
joints creak
and burst,
silent cement
speaks its first
across the years
one thing sears
memory; thirst.
To hold
to stroll,
don't know how long
we have freedom,
we may not
travel to foreign lands
but at least we can each
if just across
the park,
hold hands.

(In the morning, both statues have returned to their former positions, resting atop their pedestals. But for the faint scratches and brushed off moss, did they move at all? No one knows what happened that night in the park.)