Friday, August 19, 2011

The Hole

Hole in the heart,
I breath through you...
Let my sins,
In your sinews,
Turn taut and cold,
I forgive
The moon-crumbs
That shine iridescent,
Irate like the sun,
Through you.

Hole in this heart,
They seep like a flood---
From under the door,
Into the bedspread
And the pillows,
When the flower-vase falls,
And doesn't shatter,
Saved
By the gurgling water---

Through you.

Hole in the heart,
We part,
Like the lips
Of goodbye,
Or is that surprise
Knowing you siphoned
Us into this bloodbath...
And that I let you?
Pulse of my window
I will escape...
Into the red stream,
Of another lover's dream....
Through you.






Hole in the heart,
Filled up with changelings
Of dreams...
Never the real heart....
You were.

Always a would-be...
Last chance, say you will be...
Mine.




Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Great

How would it be...
To be a Great?

To touch a tinkering bell
And let it rhyme as well...

To resonate with the crowd
And shimmer and stand out...

To touch a copper string
And have it obligingly sing...

To step into a water-puddle
And unveil two nimbus shackles...

To amble betwixt two breezing trains
And feel a caress in an immortalized ordain...

To crouch under the old bed,
And whisper to the flashlight-dead...

To smirk into the mirror,
And dissolve into its abysmal horror...

To touch a temple,
And know I am there...

And realize---I am not Great...
I am only better.

How would it be...
To know that I could be...
Just Great?

No dart to a new heart...
No moth in a spiral path...
Nor a retribution sought at last...

Just Great and green grass...

Friday, August 5, 2011

Then When

When the narcotic dew does subside,
Will you be waiting for me behind
The stable, near the elm,
Under the yellow, lucid rain,
Upon the ground, covered in hay...
Our roof, so I fall
Upwards...
And plummet towards a holy dead end?

Let the light of the day
Burn a hole through me now...
Let me hear your laughter wane.




A dream...a dream let you be,
So I can sleep dreamlessly
And wake up to the everyday humdrum
Of never knowing you
In this onerous life...or after...

Let the light compel you to me,
Propel you to the end of this anomaly
You were never there, it was just a dream...

I pray...a prayer...
For you to disappear
So I can revel in the crushed paper-planes
And the melon tambourines,
Toothpaste sandwiches,---no,don't taste!
No,I was here alone...

In the once-upon-a-dream,
When I was a would-be...
A golden ribbon of narcotic dream
And everyday dew...
Before I knew...
You.

Then when?
Again.
After you found me...
And then...