For Each of You Poem (Excerpt)
Be who you are and will be
learn to cherish
that boisterous Black Angel that drives you
up one day and down another
protecting the ploace where your power rises
running like hot blood
from the same sourse
as you pain.
When you are hungry
learn to eat
whatever sustains you
until morning
but do not misled by details
simply because you live them.
Never To Dream Of Spiders (Excerpt)
Time collapses between the lips of strangers
my days collapse into a hollow tube
soon implodes against now
like an iron wall
my eyes are blocked with rubble
a smear of perspectives
blurring each horizon
in the breathless precision of silence
one word is made.
Once the renegade flesh was gone
fall air lay against my face
sharp and blue as a needle
but the rain fell through October
and death lay a condemnation
within my blood.
Movement Song (Excerpt)
I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck
moving away from me
beyond anger or failure
your face in the evening
schools of longing
through mornings of wish and ripen
we were always saying goodbye
in the blood in the bone over coffee
before dashing for elevators going
in opposite directions
without goodbyes.....
