Poems

fool for all




Every girl in the world oughtta be Daddy’s girl, but the world isn’t open to reason. Never left second best never fail any test, she should know Daddy loves her like Jesus. Rock’n’roll, rock-a-bye, rocky road gotta ride, rock of crack ‘cuz there’s no rock of ages. Hand to hold ages old, never led to [...]

that we don’t rule the night




you come back to me in the scent of damp jeans, with that other fragrance I could never decide wasn’t perfume, lingering for decades, making my heart race. I left on foot for the last time, drunken you in the arms of a friend, – my gift – out the side entrance, down a drive [...]

WE

WE




      strode strong through hell and gone, full many a live hard mile. left dead and love unsaid, left many a rootless child. got guns got unknown sons got soldiered into life. got taught to do our sums in dust and blood and strife. we don’t believe in any kingdom that can come. [...]

almost1




I had almost forsaken conversation1 but my longing was stronger than my fear, and the ache of my heart2 drew me out of my retreat so I could feel once again the connection,3 and share what I could of myself with a companion, or several, or many,4 who, knowing darkness, shed light. —————————————————————– 1(from fear [...]

what if




what if this confusion is only a lie? a remnant, some past self too frightened to die? or anger, the fear of an ignorant child, distant from parents and prone to be wild? what if a love is about to be lost for terror of hidden but possible cost? I’m so scared it’s not true. [...]

an inner distance of light-years




I gaze at you with eyes that can’t express the vastness of an inner distance of light-years. I breathe in the universe, and stars fall from my heart as I speak, seeing the same distance and longing in your eyes. At times there are no words, and I ache or I burn for you, yearn [...]

need to be




cold terror and a rage at seeming: wanting the real to break through these pale perceptions and saturate the world with colors torn from the light in defiance – swaths of experience sweeping the sky, drawn by breath into banners – the dark core at the heart of all longing pleading mayhem. I have a [...]

a sad lack of comfort




a caress, a soft simple touching in silence, calm gaze, cool and soothing as winter’s breath in a stifling room; a window’s opening on vistas of childhood. you gave me this holy feeling of fragility; heart fluttering lightly with echoes of infant voices and beams of summer light between leaves, laughter and certainty and a [...]

silhouette in a memory




world in silhouette in a memory from a dreamscene of innocent days. eyes bright as moonlight on a pool dark as turning away. come apart now I love you evanescent and starshine and pain, and a drug you discovered that burns down your highway veins. was an innocent once surely but I can’t recall; what [...]

Today




we have the proud and fervent passion of fierce young eagles who live in a time of wordless rituals in a church without walls where an unseen choir sings hymns that are written in our hearts and the heart of the sky for the first time and the last even as the song fades in [...]

genesis




In the beginning there was only you and I, and a universe in which we found ourselves together, one in all and each. In the beginning there were only eyes to see, and hands to hold, and we were brave before we ever knew we needed to be bold. As stars swung by in gravity or [...]

the price of doing business




No longer angry, the child is a man, empty of the turmoil that fueled his youth. Eyes that once were stones heated by a fever are void, staring with lucid and powerful focus at some distant nothing, drawing everything in without care. Still the sidewalk-spanning street-fighter slouch and sway, unself-conscious. Jail-baby, perspective born in the [...]

I wanted to be the drug. (or “Bloody Jade with a twist”)




crazed in the black night, life squirming sexward in the crotch of a god. sparks cross infernal eyes, and she’s bright and innocent and bolder than we’d ever dreamed – smooth skin all curves and soft feather caresses and trembling fingers, fevered eyes – she scans the faces and we laugh one to another in [...]

forgetting




stark moontraced shadow and flash, silver snakes on the wine in my glass, slow smoke rising in sensuous curls from a thick lipped smile as I gaze at the girls – on the carpet before me, entwined.

a song for the sunset’s daughter




Rain … Dance in the falling water. I sing a song for the Sunset’s Daughter. Shy child of the sky, an(d) Echo is my reply. I rage at the altar, lonely without my god. Didn’t think she could falter so somehow she beat the odds. (but) I see she’s fallen again; to die like a [...]

don’t try to figure it out




at the still point, there is a silence, calm. I am not in this place anymore. I never existed, and She never was, never loved, never took me down. Space never folded inward and I never saw what I saw those years on the outlaw vista, running naked in the wind, laughing golden and bright [...]

some impossible girl




I’m always falling in love with some impossible girl, somebody never meant to love me, sweetness from some other world. I’m always falling apart from some improbable pain, sorrows never meant to break me, bullets with other men’s names. she’s never there when I call. she never finds me waiting. our voices echo in a [...]