I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. Some declare their lives are lived

Your hands easy weight, teasing the bees hived in my hair, your smile at th… slope of my cheek. On the occasion, you press

We wear the mask that grins and li… It shades our cheeks and hides our… This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subt…

You drink a bitter draught. I sip the tears your eyes fight to… A cup of lees, of henbane steeped… Your breast is hot, Your anger black and cold,

She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of… She came home running

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing

There is no warning rattle at the… nor heavy feet to stomp the foyer… Safe in the dark prison, I know t… light slides over the fingered work of a toothless

I keep on dying again. Veins collapse, opening like the Small fists of sleeping Children. Memory of old tombs,

Your skin like dawn Mine like musk One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a

Beloveds, now we know that we know… Without notice, our dear love can… In the instant that Michael is go… Though we are many, each of us is… Only when we confess our confusion…

When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big jok… A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke,

When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the stre… Young men sharp as mustard. See them. Men are always

I’ve got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry