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The Dark Room

Light’s audacity continues to amaze me.
It stands still and stands for, senseless, mute,
immobile, resolute.  Who could question passion’s
stills, desire’s shuttering,  love’s stilling click?
Its baleful peer pierces moment’s shadow, exposes
my life within his spine’s juices, waves in his life
developing my fears and hopes. He envelops me
as I envelop him, deeps first, shallows last,
thermocline broken only at hunger’s fast subside.
I am in love with this girl who goes offering —
with this still life floating in troughs of tidepools spent.


random musings

the rain falls; light blue
kisses between previously
enamored friends.

umbrellas dot the
landscape, visual whores
clamoring for their bread.

an indistinct whisper reveals
a hint of lips, painted,
a touch of chin, rouged,
a thin swallow of neck
half-hidden in textile folds.

banshees exit, tear
back-popping exhaust through wet
lights -- no sirens yet.

bent tree, crumbling brown-
green, shivers pattering pain
onto damp walkway.