january 31, 2002

happy new year (belated)

this is for my love:

reunion

one:
contraband smudged halfnotes
dusty from decades in hall closet hatbox

two:
creamy linens aging severely
creases cutting tangos across embroidery

three:
snapshots of us in youth explosion
timebandits rearing our temperament south

four & five:
tattered bookends and half-hewn erasers
victim of nervous teeth aping a magical ax act

today:
oilskin rug slips under bare ass & feet
mothballs as hula girls quiver in collusion
sun slants in custard stain as we thumb
through crumbling detritus & ether
playing envy with a looted life
or maybe just stealing - what?

"a love that rains all sound from space"