Thursday, December 31, 2009

A Good-Bye, Before The Next Hello


Today's the first day of flowers and figs,

of Brazilian Pepper Trees scrawny

not big, and of scrubbing old floors

down on both aching knees,

(but happily not my good luck),


my sore back drugged like a junkie

who lives in the alley out there, it's

here in this empty apartment that I'm

stoned on ibuprofen galore,


I've walked and I've sat on this old hardwood

and tile reading books of poems and art,

now and again a political tome, stared at

the computer screen for too long a while,


it's here I've penned much of my own poetic

lines, whose feelings and words whispered

freedom and fullness like nothing else has,


and what's true for sure is that this floor

stuck thick with three years of greasy

grime waits my attention this morn as I

clench my cracked knuckles and jaw full

of joy, green sponge laden with Ajax and

Comet and Mr.Clean


(Donner and Blixen seem to have flown

this scene, as quite soon I shall as well),


and it's all happening, thank God, in 3/4 time!

Monday, December 28, 2009

?


Is Melba toast,
have you lost
your neighbor
yet, you know
the lusty waif
next door who
moaned scary
and turned poor
Ray half crazy,

as you elbow
and grin big
on your way
home to the
green hilltop
street of the
most spacious
song ('El Canto')

where there's
more room,
more beauty
for lazing
and loving
on longer
afternoons


and what's best,
lots of ground
to plant a tree
or three down
deep into ?

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Flag Day


She knew, oh my, just how

and where to touch his fancy,

you know, that worldly place

not secret--oft unspoken--right

there inside where a real girl

gets her guy unfurled, but good.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Ithaca


to simply sit
in pure silence
is not often
easy nor
instantly
pleasing

to become diffuse
purplish tint
from one
broken blue
berry oozing
on new
fallen snow

and for just
a small
spare
moment

if the soft
descending
lacework of
grace enters
this empty
bare room

you may slip
from the
addictive
bonds
of your
stooped
tired self

and become
no one at all
with nothing
to tell, no
branded
goods to
market
or sell

and then
know down
in your bones
the comfort
the freedom
of having
finally landed,

of being
truly at
home.

NEW(D) NEIGHBOR



The red haired burlesque queen is my new neighbor,
yes, she has six or seven cats and wears weird
Turkish hats

but oh god I do love how she wiggles and waves the freedom flag of her half hidden bod,
her undraped silky curvaceous skin while waiting on top of our stoop at day’s rain slicked rear end for her lucky son of a bitch short stub of a hubby,

that quiet bald runt drives a lifted black truck and
gets a testosterone boost, but I betcha’ not much or
enough, while she drives me nuttier than nuts with
the pluck and the suck of those cute fluffy pink lips,

they’re plumper by far than that simpering movie star
Angelina Jolie.

Please don’t tell him with no hair how his wife’s white
swervy flesh and twirling wild teats over there (and there too)
dizzy me crazy and dazed, I feel drunker than a brand new
unfrocked uncelibate monk enthralled and in tune with
the sweet smiling sliver of a lusty red moon,

to tell ya’ the truth, I tell the boys at the shop she has Catholic
school beat, when I gawk and gaze at her unclothed complete
my faith grows by bounds and gigantic leaps, SHE is such a
god damn treat, an answer to pubescent prayers, yes the new gal
upstairs could quickly become, praise the lord one floor up above
(and take out your gum),

let’s just enter her lair, unlock the back door
of Miss Rubescent Love, my fan dangling
big hearted bare savior who's given my tickled
flesh and its' somersault mind one big
loving shove!

Friday, December 11, 2009

Snow Berries

a sprinkle of purplish

berries rests on a

white crust of snow

outside your gleaming

front room window,


inside the heart of

this big house

the heater heats

and the tv speaks

assorted babel to

our warm and

hopeful ears,


and yet, I can’t wait

to traipse up these

several stairs where

we’ll tuck and be

tucked in, and

under, the softest

thickest quilt Grand/

ma ever built


to doze deep snooze

long burrow easy

like shining cozy

berries reflecting

winter light.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

COLD DAZE

there are days when the light

fades so early and I feel un/

washed, high heaped as old

piled clothing, days so cold


that stained snow cannot stick

around and my frigid multitude

of wild mistakes make wet hay

toss and shiver like gold dross

on once safe low altitude

frostbitten ground.

Monday, December 7, 2009

While watching a mediocre scary movie on Netlix...


….the neighbor girl rumbles and groans through a thin wall

of semi-separation seeking sleep or a quick orgasm, while

a train miles away moans on and on and on,


it trumpets its solipsistic energies like a lonely virgin or shaggy

bleating mountain goat, lost and wandering in the rain flooded

formidable night, this day was made only of water and now in

darkness all roads are impassable, pavement became streams,

each road a flowing avenue of real wet dreams and my neighbor girl,


no strumpet tonight, finds sleep and sex sadly impossible, she gives

up, stands to stretch, staggers to her tiny kitchen, makes weak cocoa

in a white China cup, opens wider her dry eyes then sits at her laptop

to wander, ignores the sweet possibility of mystery of wonder and she

wastes herself again.


the rain saturates everything now, trees shoes ambitions memory, like

a strange illness, like greed or gluttony or righteousness, and the sallow

man in a dark coat, hatless, no sleep for days, coughs and stares straight

through my front door screen as if it were not there, as if he were not lost.



Sunday, December 6, 2009

ONE NIGHT


the sparkling moon

bleeds flowers of

plenty into a

meandering

night,


drops of red

soak and

cleanse

ancient stars

in dark pots

of silence,


you scurry

to catch a

glimpse of

father fate

in time’s

brisk

brown

hands,


then with that

grin I love,

carve your

name in the

swinging gate

of the bluest

galaxy


where it curves

and shimmers

like crimson

clay next

to mine.

the going of Millie



Yes, my attentive friends, Millicent went

quite and suddenly nuts, she cracked up

on a windy night high flying in a wet red

airborne tent,


while earthbound Alfred of a misspent

desultory middle age, sky gazed paced

sweated salt streams of repressed rage.


Yet, all along he feared his darling betrothed,

sweet distracted bewigged Hortense, the

pudding cream of prudish has beens,


had not in truth paid one Honest Abe dead

head cent (or flimsy farthing for that matter)

towards their fucking late inflated rent.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

la luna

the lush ripe
fullest moon

issues forth
golden shining
newborns

from its vast
skyblack

queen size
bed.