When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an att…

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

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

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

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win

Your skin like dawn Mine like musk One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a

When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big jok… A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke,

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,

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

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

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

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