LOVE BYTES
1.
We have
met before
you recall
that day
you felt
lava
from loins
to brain
to toes
for no
reason
That was me
AMOR HEREOS
Love
sickness
Sometimes you want
to drink something
to drive you totally mad
to make
it happen
CIRCLES
Tell me the end
tell me now at the start –
how will you leave me
what art will you use
to refuse the last fusion,
to peel us apart
Tell me the end
how will you persuade me
to ease the cleaving
What art will you use
to carve me from your heart
to peel us apart
Give
l
Give
ess than you get
Set
that as your goal
and you’ll never lose
anything
of yourself
anything
but love.
Don’t you wonder
where it comes from
don’t you
wonder
why it’s here
When my voice
fills up the room
don’t you wonder
what you hear
Don’t you wonder
where it’s going
don’t you
wonder
why you’re here
When my voice
fills up the room
don’t you wonder
what you fear?
black wine
whose stains
remain
forever on the tongue
– that night
pains my mouth
with memory
black
wine
SWEET
How sweet of you to notice
my agony, my dear, how
kind of you to inquire again.
We will leave it
at that, of course.
Even I
have my
limit
of pain.
BLUES
Blues in the background like an old friend
or the guard in the prison you’d promised
you’d never go back to. Blues in the background
in this inappropriate elegant salon, and
everyone is talking money and drinking this year’s
right wine. Only me sitting sullenly in a corner,
refusing to walk out the cell’s open door
discussing my heart with Dinah as if
nobody else in the room had ever felt it –
that beat in the background that controls
our torpid torrid life.
Evil night
leaving me
with such dreams
a weave of loss
and light
softness
that blinds
my eyes
evil
night
I want to hear it again
what you said then
about always
loving me
just for the memory
I want to hear it
even though I know that
we never will lie
together
until we die.
Those sleepless nights –
when I am naked and undesiring
of anything but delight:
life, felt in the bone –
I think of you,
shuddering through narrow
acute experiences,
terrified –
of what I watch for
all night
BEYOND DESPAIR
I love you so—-
And there you go
Life is free
living beyond despair
as if you care