Your smile, delicate rumor of peace. Deafening revolutions nestle in th… cleavage of your breasts

Her arms semaphore fat triangles, Pudgy hands bunched on layered hip… Where bones idle under years of fa… And lima beans. Her jowls shiver in accusation

A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since depart… Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here

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

Funky blues Keen toed shoes High water pants Saddy night dance Red soda water

FOR DAVID P—B The eye follows, the land Slips upward, creases down, forms The gentle buttocks of a young Giant. In the nestle,

Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city

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

A last love, proper in conclusion, should snip the wings forbidding further flight. But I, now,

Pretty women wonder where my secre… I’m not cute or built to suit a fa… But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say,

One innocent spring your voice meant to me less than tires turning on a distant street. Your name, perhaps spoken,

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything that… Some people wrap their lies around… And you sit wondering

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?

Tears The crystal rags Viscous tatters Of a worn-through soul Moans

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleev… to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies. Mushlike memories perform