"And here we are as there they were: in this kiss"
De Rerum Natura
That nether hair is there for our protection The keep through which the castle works erection That portcullis whence we sally forth to see How the other half lives: entangled within The portcullis of another even as Our elements combine underneath our skin In a dance of life which causes life to be And then rests tender (here) as it always has In softly saline human propinquity
Your father knew of this and your mother too As mine and everyone's to cause me and you To repeat the pattern to know what they knew
It feels awkward to imagine them like this But there they were and here we are: in this kiss To repeat the pattern of past human bliss Then turn side by side as our world turns around Having found as seeking humans always found "It is not good for the man to be alone" Nor the woman as you have so warmly shown And here we are as there they were: in this kiss Just as those who came before had always known
I would not wax just as I would not wane The moon now waxes both of us (again)
Dear readers, this is my third book of poems, and inside are a special collection of what have turned out to be not only MY personal favorites, but also the favorites of many of YOU. Some of these have never been available in print before...
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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