Poem for Today

Content

Pulse of breathing,
Pushing your chest against my back,
Bumping me, 
Like the slow thud of the bedside clock.

A million dreams tumble in you,
Swirling under your tresses,
Splayed over the pillows and my neck.


A sigh comes with a flicker of your limbs,
You seem content,
Untouched, enthralled, but at peace.

Alive and not,
Your breath warms my neck.
I only want to make your waking days,
As beautiful as your sleep.


November 2011

Poem for Today

For Life

You think I need you,
But just for the moment,
For this right-now want.

But my desire for you is in every moment,
In every drip, in this measured flow of time.

Join me in this dance,
Across the slippery globe,
Spinning ourselves around each other,
Because I'll be here for life.


Nov. 2011

Poem for Today

Catch 

Trying to win you.

I saw a child’s hand,

Opening and closing in a slanting beam of sun,

Cutting across its play-pen world.

She tried to capture the hope of light,

In a small and fat fist.

Feeling the warmth of yellow on flesh,

Fingers folding tight,

She snatches her hand to her face,

But she sits in the shade,

And the light is gone.

Sept/Oct 2011

Poem for Today

Still

Pausing, waiting, stopping,

Holding all time for your love,
I don’t remember why I wait.
But I have also forgotten anything else.

Trying to gather the webs of your life into my arms,

It’s much harder than even calling the sparrows to my side.

Sept/ Oct 2011

Poem for Today

Light
In this land,
Obliterated with light,
So bright and numbing and pure,

Feeling like sound,

Destructive with its vibration,
Shaking the strips of my bones.

In this place,

She gives me colors,
White, searing, sizzling.
A flash of burning joy when we love,
Black, never ending abyss when she leaves.


That is what stays with me.
The opening of a shaft,
Cut into the earth,
Whose end is dizzy-deep.

I can see it at night, because the entrance is darker,

That’s what makes it stand out. 

She colors my life.
All the shades,
Now they are mixed,
Scrambled, and dry-cracked in the sun,
Like my old paintbox.


Sept 2011

Poem for Today

Cities

In beautiful hotels,

In maddening and difficult cities,

Plump with anger and wealth.

In the pine forests, damp-cool and free,

Under a swirling night,

Of lights and dust and voices,

Far away, but right here around me.

In all this space,

And flow of time,

I walk in a small wire cage.

With nothing to witness me,

Without the joy of someone’s pride,

With no reasons.

This is being without love.

Sept/Oct  2011

Poem for Today

Knowing You

I don't know what you are,
Only that you are one woman,
And the destiny of the world is in your hands,
And that touching your mouth makes me alive.


Oct. 2011