8
We walk and
take to sitting, the swing swaying in Birchwood Park. The moon casts a glib
shadow upon her, slim and leaning; she talks like a train, folds earth from
under her tongue.
‘Is it the
tequila or do you love as I the implacable buildings?’
It is quiet
tonight from above where the garden often sings, the man whose hair is long and
flowing, the heavy way he walks in the way of love-
like a
stumbling drunken sailor each and every night in Calcutta, which lay upon our
wall. The horizontal redeeming eyes, a vertical dress, and from then on I
bathed within the song.
In the way of
love...
A singular
river flowing red organ, we are boundless beings-
I have listened to the
sesames and lilies, the way she curves like a tangerine kneels when the word
becomes flesh.
The great
romance of construction...
9
But of the
man I met the other night:
I see him
standing in the parvis, the bright blue grass garnished with the granular way
we construct this endless talking, to acknowledge where I might be headed, the
headlights and all the tired nights you must have seen on that beautiful
California, it was a postcard you had shown me, it was not a picture, I remember
now, seated and saying, yes but do you call her often?
If only we
could find a way to break that which keeps me from coming to visit you and your
cylinder candle.
10
From the coliseum where the lions have swallowed Rome,
the walls have a dowry of tigresses’ eyes,
the windows the eyes of Degas,
the brick top roads of amaretto-
it is there where I have made
ambrosia out of silence,
speaking from the cracks within the boards.
If only to have seen the verdure,
the vernissage in Paris,
the colorful sidewalks,
the palatable street side vendors,
the women selling the New York Herald Tribune-
the story of her lumbering
sienna curves, the concordance of her hourglass form, her rubber heels
walking...
Yes! I am writing of the black ocean tempest dreams,
to love again in the black ocean of another’s eyes.