4' 11
Baseball Heaven
93 lbs.
Her passionate sounds
When she's 5'3
Will she dream about me?
Sunset desire
The West is on fire...
Meltdown
Just wait and see
There is Heaven on Earth
Could be Heaven on Earth
When the light touches you
Realize your status
As a child of light
Part of light
Like light
Light
One kiss over
A wildfire
A constant flame
Lips are setting
Setting sun swelling
There's no telling
Kiss you again~
The season shapes up
In its usual way
Starting at my door.
An old style bathing suit for me
And you forever, burning like crazy.
Remember us and the penny arcade?
Trip to the shore
The silver flash
Casting long, snowy shadows
With the sun never going down
Let it loose again
And you say,
In your little voice, you say,
"Ludus fiat fiat hic
ludus ludus"
Melt in your arms.
Late late late
Such a late night
Too much driving going on
Clouds thunder
And that key incident
With Carol
Bruised my spirits
Now there she is
My salvation
My young education
Sleeping
Have to get her
Back to the Hotel
Have to persevere...
I'd never visited the shore at night
You know, the Pacific Ocean
But I'd always wondered about it.
Fretted about it
Like, it's always there, you know
And it's so incredibly big
My house but a toss away
Your house but another toss away
Or two
What's to keep it from swallowing us up one day?
Whether we go there or not?
It's pretty silly.
But at night
Not when dull parents
Take their shrill kids
For a little dip on a perfectly urban day
Of urban bliss
But at night
Well, what goes on there?
Trolls and bandts out there?
Passive transients?
Serial killers?
Teachers and students?
(i.e. More happy folks like us?
Maybe we can start a club...)
The glint of moonlight interruptus
From a blue-barreled gun?
Honey
Want to take you...
So, anyway, we go
Like love-drunk moths
We go
After homework
After chores
Or even baby-sitting
Outsmarting the unwary guardians of law
Like Perry Mason
Like Della Street
Exploring some ancient boathouse mystery...
And the night
It isn't mean
And it echoes all your screams...
It doesn't matter what we do
Or what we say
What matters is this feeling
Here inside of me
Sun going down
Awakening, rejoicing
Once again this visit
It's happening again
How can I say it?
When words distort it?
Turn the camera on you
And believe~
It's all true~
A voluptuous sentence
Shape, a form
A definite sense
Of shadiness
With grain's coarse texture
Describing three-dimensional volumes
In a real sense I can't ignore
On a grey, bright, sunny day.
(Holography, parallax, eyesight distortion
There through essential media)
Confusion brings tears
And you want to stray
So I touch those sad tears
Grain and texture
Nebulous years, specific distance.
"It's raining."
It's raining. Scratchy record.
"It's raining."
It's raining.
I'm here
But where are you?
I have to be careful
What I say to you
It's all too easy
Giving myself away
And we both know this
Always
Some sort of green
So remember
And call
"Please come now."
So turn around
Now spearmint
Now Winter
Green like never say
Like night and day
Like every way
All the day's spinning
Stuck in sand
I love you and you
Never know
Red, green
With blue mixed between them
Night brings day
Still trailing away
See me some
Still sinking in sand
Feel this way
Still feel this way
Let's separate
Some coffee from the rest
And drink some coffee
And sit at the kitchen table.
Last night
I tried turning pages
Always sitting
Always writing
Frozen like no one knows
While she plays under equatorial skies
There are days when
The sun never seems to rise
And the wind draws its power
From faceless victims
Dizzy
Estranged
Like dust from a book
Like shocks of crumbled granite
Quarter note
Resting too
In the air
And love you
Nice view in a while
Yet
Love you
Late, late
Sunday night make
An iris, say
So never tire
And shadowland and
Love you and
You in formal text
(Rest)
Back with me
(Rest)
Another note
(Rest)
With love,
You Dear
(Rest
It's her room
And she shook me
Like she knew something about dawn
How we grew up wrong
What trees were on the lawn
Where the shadows turned on.
Something about light
While I lie still at night
Like a mirror
Rivals those that see
What was meant to be
Why you can't see but three.
Maples and shade
Never quite faded
Like you'd feel it should
Forever lost in wood
Now moving from West to East
There, now fast from reach
See that delicate line?
Can't you see why she's mine?
Let me fall peacefully
Into that valley of you
Where time has no true meaning
And age, an ancient concept
Grows more distant
With each passing heart.
You alone can bring me there.
I breathe the cool midnight
Of your forbidden hair
Made buoyant
By its endless sea of waves
Holding me under
And washing my weary soul.
Not content not to be with you
I size against truth
With the bridesmaids I meet
Chasing the fleet nubile nature
In their transient collective soul.
The flesh of union
Burns within reach.
It brands me, binds me
A little closer,
A little farther
To, from
The intimacy of your endless touch.
It's true all things
Begin and end
With you.
Such a simple concept
Yet true.
Light fading
And encased by your brilliant warmth,
I'm strangled by arms, legs,
Your hair
Our ritual transport
Up and down the stairs.
Primus: "Don't let me go,"
Said with menace and care,
Elsewhere, (2, by useless strangers):
"Over in that house,
Well, something peculiar
Is happening there."
(Answers from the basement,
From the 2nd floor
Of my tatooed heart:)
1) "I won't let you go,"
2) "What they say
I just don't care..."
Mary says
(There with Dude,
In the hallway
At that frat party
Fateful)
"I can feel it now
All so quiet
And your heartbeat, too
And all this insdie of me
And even that camera
Over there.
"Say, what are they doing there?"
The pillow captures my reeling head
As I find my place in bed
And retrace steps
To visit that picture
Last sleep I'd left off tracing.
In the gray distance,
Both space and time,
Red is the memory
Fresh, translucent,
Then opaque blue
And, save for orange,
thin, perimetric gold,
Cold glass and that sparkle
Which signifies danger.
Yet somehow
It's all auspicious
For you, for me
Here and then.
And across town
Deciduous green
Spruces the frame
From fertile fields
Once littered by decaying wood-frame houses
Now expectant with that taste
Of lake sediment, regal forests
And years gone by.
What else?
Museum blue
And skies far-reaching
With sapient, piercing sun
Punching in like nails
Complete this window.
All mixed by your eyes
At the altar
In our simple wedding to be seen.
The cores of our respective fasts did break
As apples and in silver bin reside
Loving, spent, refugees from a perfect world
Where real is the taste of your honeyed mouth
Your eyes~
I yearn to touch grey skies
As an eagle who's gazed upon life
High from apple-heavy bough
Still shaking, quivering
From the explosions each morning brings
Still fresh from the intimacy of your fertile touch.
In a world filled with fear,
Resentment,
Your love shines
Like a beacon
Over shimmering seas
Which contain the true secret
Of blue skies long since vanquished
By endless night.
Let our lips
Seal a bond that speaks
Not of possession
Nor of petty faithlessness
Nor let twilight
Surround this vessel
Branded by grace of friendship.
Our dawn
Is a well-cherished treasure
And hope lingers
In harbor
Brushed with the expectancy
Of what we two hold
So close, so warm, so dear.
"So where do you want to go?..."
Faces there
Drawing me in
There were faces there
They were there, drawing me in
And she's my little angel
But has it never happened to you?
Walking on level ground
Enjoying bits of certainty
Nice news on the sandy flats
Yet trouble on the hill
Lots of people in the flatlands
Yet a few brave souls on the hill
And she's my little angel
She'll always be
My little angel
So I secure the rhyme
Stepping down a bit
Embracing the urgent time
While lifting up a bit
"We're safe, Dear"
With no shoes or socks
Warm feet
Safe time
And insular heat
We're safe
"And listen to that wind,"
Murmurs the radio
(Our heart of hearts)
As we stay safe
From such nasty weather
And it still echoes in there...
So little time...
I used to believe in houses
Shelters, basements, cars
Just one vibration and it's all over now
No collisions, work or motion
I'm in free fall
Darling, must be in orbit
And the cards say
There's no turning closer
"You naughty boy,
I'll tell you what you'll dream.
Such a sinful, young boy,
Want to know what you'll see?"
Where are you?
What did you dream?
I dreamt silver was soaring
And of you
Amidst ever-widening tables
With test tubes of crown glass
Dark bottles of aqua regia
Like sainted apothecary
Waiting for The Visit.
You evil girl
Not knowing when to scream
You beautiful, brown child
Touching my dreams
A ring
An answer
A beehive of lucky stars
She didn't have to go far
Was in her own back yard
Life, love
Across the way
The day is slowing
The moon has its say
I feel your lips touching mine
I think of you all the time
My blood in place
Rushing the dark between us
Our lovely Park
Arms enmesh between us
Recurrent moon
And the lovers' story
Radiant
With a heart of glory
He loves her
Yet a problem in that it doesn't click
In the night when two souls become one
As souls tend to do
And the chalice is filled,
Superfilled,
Overfilled
Then inverted
With one left thirsty
Left to twisted dream
Now he loves her
And those dreams we mentioned
Take on a new meaning
For fresh is night's realm
When the day's heat has just dissolved
And the forest still echoes
With two soul's mingling
And three hearts heard beating
Not two...
The last time
I'd a glimpse of you:
Late last summer
Down the rose-lit stair
How I carry that moment
Locked in a tireless heart
Still pumping
With hope of feeling it once again
Your rain-soaked sweet image
Never leaves me
Now older
Now younger
Now trembling lips and then
Now touching me once again.
(No one else seems to matter
No one else would understand...)
There are rings
And stars
And summer midnight skies
With air so deep and blue
Would but to love
Like that dream
Where that sand is warm, smooth
And every night is you.
Nice girls
Finish all their supper
Then savor
The milky downs of lust
Like milk and chocolate
Melt on a silver platter.
Are you a nice girl?
When she kisses me
When she kisses me
When she kisses me
When she kisses me
When she kisses me
When she kisses me
When she kisses me
Too much joy in here
So much
Clever warmth
Like the words from our lips
This feeling
At sundown
At rose bloom
Does it matter what we say?
"Honey, it might be raining..."
What to do
When this world
Collapses
All about you
The machinery
Is not in place
To tighten it
All up again
With left side
Way too loose
And the right
Going home
With someone else's marbles.
Darling, look at me
And I need you
Not there
To sometimes cure me.
For the rehabilitation
Is the pause that
Precedes that breath
And then that discovery
That my house is open.
And then there's you
Rushing through those doors.
his rebus auditis,
vir, summa cum vi
miratus est.
filia parta,
aluit stella.
And he said, "No
nonononononono.
It doesn't get better
Much better at all
Never much better
Than this
Love
Than this."
When you were born
You came full force
From the Blue
Like a streaking comet
Burning, gleaming
Descending into mystery
And from the depths
Of nourished Oceans
Azure now indelibly your color
You reward my life
Dwarfing the brightest star
Never changing
Changing by the second
Unblinking
Impeccable spirit
Grasping, gasping
Immaculate
Now standing in sweet, cleansing rain
Deus, let me forget
This monument laid bare
From her love, hot, so cold
The cores of our respective fasts did break
As apples and in silver bin reside
Loving, spent, refugees from a perfect world
Where real is the taste of your honeyed mouth
Your eyes~
I yearn to touch grey skies
As an eagle who's gazed upon life
High from apple-heavy bough
Still shaking, quivering
From the explosions each morning brings
Still fresh from the intimacy of your fertile touch.
I can't see a Sunset
A raven, a beautiful beach
Grain of sand
Without thinking of you.
Don't say I'm crazy
Because it's true.
My heart's forever
In that warm tropic breeze
And it's nothing
Nothing at all
If not shared with you.
My heart is shared with you.
Let me get back to that night
Where solitude rules in
Stead of darkness
And each hour
Reminds oneself of future hours
Winding to the top
To begin again.
Let me get back to that night
To renew that truth
That this journey is a mystery
Revealing itself all the while
Her tears do not touch sadness
Nor does fire the urgency
That she is burning
Such a simple image
Feeding the dark's blue.
Your precious weight shines
White with hunger
I'll read you in
And always then some more
Sharp like a razor
From every view
Every view again.
Jarred from inexorable tracks
Of fretful service
I spied you
In your very own back yard
Doing somersalts
Ariels
How your private splendor
Could push me
Like a tropical view
Burrowing through
That brain freeze of tundra snow
To a new location
Not sure.
So my heart is down here now
Or better still
I am down here one now with my heart
Well well South of Border
No sense pretending
That isn't the true vision
Since it is.
Drunk wih sun, sand
Darling, one more flip
And I'm stripped from reason
This time forever.
When I close my eyes
Thoughts turn to you
Like a familiar shadow.
It is difficult
To feel your presence
And not bathe in that tree's
Sweet, favonian
Sunlight-speckled
Warm, sandy breezes.
Barely
Holding on today
Must see you
Desperately
And this night's love
Is what defines us true
Passion is our world.
Fallen from Blue
Full lips of earthly grace
I say these words:
Drop down
See me a while
Knowing since the first time
One full moon
Once in a million
Your smile goes with me
On and on
One full moon
Once in a million
You're one in a million billion
Come, my lucky star
Don't tell me
Wrapped in your warmth
Don't tell me
Safe, secure
Lost by your side
Don't tell
Echoes, shudders, sending through
Sighing to the last gasp
I've reached you.
Yet can't write your good poetry
No no no
No again
Must use silver tackle
Silver bait
Then count again.
I use my tongue
Like words
(My words)
Cast adrift in your swift pool of memory
There.
I drift
I slip
Noiseless
Resistless
To slower times
Where weight
Where age
Are but an old notion
I look after
Your two brown eyes
Which reveal
A deep, compassionate
Inner nature
Massaging me on.
I lust for the taste
Of your girlhood essence
This way
That way
This way
Like some resonant ship
Sailing above erotic seas.
Arms about me
Your heartbeat
Echoes through our world.
Some strange thing
This landscape
(Really ours)
And the distant churning
Of deep blue
Sympathetic seas.
Friday night when I find
Little George
Mortally bleeding
But without the common sense
To ask for help
Much less help himself.
She doesn't chase down her prey
That's a myth.
She springs
You come like some mystery
And I'm half crazy
With the thought
Of hearing your sweet name.
It was you
Behind those clouds
I could tell
It's you
Forever shining
Somewhere
Day, night
A smile
Outrageous
Waves
Waves
More piercing waves
Did you dream
That special dream
Say five, six maybe
Weeks ago?
Emblazoned
With two-way mirror
The tall look on
While this side
Looks, love
Like you look, love
And longer hair
And more love
More
And more, more in love
I love my love with an L:
She'll laugh like a lark in a larch
Letting loquacious leaves
Lose their lyric, lugubrious clasp
To slip, silent, swift
Then linger on languid, limpid lawn
In some luscious park
On some lovesome afternoon.
Gazing through dream blue skies
Your eyes see far and away
A hazy day
A mountain range
Tail lights blinking
Like cherry domes, reaching
Crests and waves
Through snow belt scenery
A canyon
With shadows so cold
But the sun setting fire
To everything he touches.
This warmth inside me
On hearing your name
A gold vein
Unstable
(Threatened village)
Bald Mountain
An ancient fire
Bathed in the light
Of that blue star
A constant shadow
Soothed by flames
Of your enchanting love
When I think of you
And time resumes unnoticed
Sometimes I'll test
My ambitious heartbeat
Trying to break through.
How many times
Does the average heart pulse
In seven years?
Is this a new age?
Really? Really new?
(Never a new heart)
When I spoke to you
In fertile garden
Sprinklers sprinkling
Fresh lawn glistening
(Grounds kept by tireless keeper)
Was everything said
In the bat of a nervous eye?
Is the truth aligned
With the trace of a young girl's smile?
(Hearts unglued, kisses fall like rain.)
Leaves
I see green
Shades of wintergreen
Touch your windows
With really dark times ahead
Year's end time soon October
Yet we with our love
Kiss fragrant roses
Kiss you upstairs.
Landing long lingers
Warm time simmering
Through to sweet September
Even outside, dark
Cooking frenzy
Sweeps you upstairs
Kitchen witch
A ward against evil
Rain and roses
With pumpkin dark
And flour curves in
Warmth from fertile pose
Rain, roses in the air!
Like the metal comes through your wall
Telephone, TV, stereo
I loved you from far away
Warmed remotely by
Amber lights and a cool glow.
(A CD plays. Home fires burn.)
Suddenly:
Love turns green by the Sea
Cupric lines lie bleeding
Resentful, ungrounded
The city shuts down.
Yet patina protects you
Like the change in your
Summer clothes
And a friday's warmth
Fogs you with style.
I love to linger between her long
Long languishing legs
I love to lie in lusty twilight
Luscious lugubrious longings
Long lost
Her soothing essence sipping sudden silence
And amplified early aural ardor
Persistent peril, pertinent plethora
Of previous pulsating pleasures
Now nodding noble knowledge
Of nubile gnostic need
I seek her slim, supple, sensual sex
Persistent, incessant, inebriate
Simmering, slender skin
Suddenly stirring subsequent serpentine swayings
To snap, snarl, spiral, spurt
All night, all day
That summer by the Bay
You loved me, then you
Loved me, but now it's
All too risky. Shadows
This way
Got in the way
Maybe here to stay
Remember Spring
And your cotton dress?
I just knew you
In the store I knew you
Kissed you behind the knee
And you wouldn't let me be
Even though you had to pee
And me
Heart stirring
Longing for summer wind
But not those shadows.
Tuesday
When she says,
"What shall we play
When such cold, dreary days
Come between
Us and the open sea?"
No sailing
No easy current hypnotizes
Like the wealth of times
Locked in this room
Full of warmth and laughter
Complacency
Lies naked on a pillow
While the sun marks time
Bridging us
And a layman's storm.
Sequester in the fray
I've suffered unkind today
So what do you say
You, me
Save all our frozen dollars
And go out to out
In a night that lets us follow
All amongst ourselves...
Why is my love
In such suspense
Regarding her
And that sheltered state?
Years
Tender, sweet, seducing
Years
Nearly reaching
Nearly half insane.
Like White, a color
Magnesium flame, the ardor
Mist settles in the trees
"Shoot me, woman."
Test? A test.
The acid test and fortune.
Then
With a roar, she goes
A wanton wind, she goes
Nights, nights, nights
Island green
Dream of you
Loving you
Burning
I rock near
Most everything I do
That smile
While I burn away nights
If not summer, then
Like a slide show
Making a film
Out on real streets
He'll finish it one day
Love is like flight
Finally;
You stumble;
Versed in need,
Climbing high
I see a picture
A word here and there
Times I'll venture close
Yet could I do this
So tired...
My poor brown Vineeta
All those women
So go ahead and show them.
Spring in air
Summer setting
And as we enter those dark times
I don't fear the freezing rain
With once having savored
When, still deep with denial
On my way
Then again late last night
When the Daughter was born
Red, then blue
Simmering in
Summer shadows
Such a pleasure
This time we share.
As a bright star
And wherever you are
Please shine on me
From this distance
From this far field
The world slow-turning
That space between us
Burning
And you slip away
That darkness then
Please shine on me
Carousel
Makes me think of you
Glance
A telling gaze
Nice quiet and I'm spinning
Concentrating, concentrate
Spinning, spin some more
Then lonely winter
Nothing lasts forever
Always coming round again
In a carousel
With light a crystal blue
Loving, love
Love some more.
Holographic
Is like landing
Like a mirror
Like light coming
Into a city of constant flames
Ruled by desire
Dark winter looms
Each direction I might stumble
But I stumble
Success in reaching
That lone, abandoned structure
Renovated with each wodden plank
A life of persistence and in love
A castle, a shrine
A tireless testament
Burning the night away
Like a landing
Like frozen windows
Looking in
To a city of endless flames
Ruled by desire.
Eclipse
Spying your silver shadow,
Wet with wine,
Conquered by gold flame,
Intoxicating essence,
Crimson heart,
Fully spent,
Warm, brown,
And all of you
On a war chest
Connected
Yet held back
By fading memories.
No Sweet Surrender
Earth's Eastern timepiece
Ascends
And never descending
Control
Then words to that picture
Come later
Try to fill it in
Can't fill it in.
A noun here and then
Some scribbles, disappointment
Start again
Sometimes magic
A clear moment
And I can almost
See you now
Near you.
Seem so near to you.
Living life in full moments
I'd give it up
Really give it up altogether
And with you still
Once Again
Phone ringing
Lost in waves
Impersonating
Every woman I meet
To reach me.
At the Beach
In endless tans
Hiding my little girlie from view
Out of sheer jealousy
Mariposa
Legs in air
Squirming around
Pin having stuck her
Right there in the middle
Raven
Raven flying
Daughter rising
Through to the other side
The Park
What do I prepare
To guarantee you near me
Through to that other side?
or days long with shadow
But this cold, empty home
Not long could I endure
That winning recipe
When stars aligned
And the wind your breath
Your heartbeat sunset
And royal blue
He fell in love.
Late One Evening
To a fave place of substance
I saw a building
And knew I'd live there
Less will than knowledge
With one of those gazes
From my cozy little bed
I saw my child
Smiling there back at me
Waiting to be born.
She had your eyes.
filia parta
The light began its journey
And that bubble of love
Filled one point in time
First me, then you
Always falling
And 'round the bend
Never reaching
Yet still around the bend.
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Atkins, George