And the day was a man
With a beard for a bird feeder
A caved-in spine and a forest for a mouth
And the night was a wave, broken and blue,
A somersault between my knees
Lo air, lips, and two half-parted fingers
A roomful of glass beetles, like three dozen departed souls
Winging their way to freedom
Bellies full of cocktail parties and tailored suits with split-back seams
Spiffy shoes
Oh, how stunning you look!
Smartphones clang-clang like broken champagne
Man and wife bound at the feet, hang by their matching cornstalks till morning
Upper lips never move
And I, on a night of small breasts and sky-high panty lines–
the sounds of the side streets and the fields and the crickets and the softly departing jazz–
I, I reach like a red brook, like a broken charm, like the stalk of a sunflower no one else can climb
For the year’s end, for a life’s end, for an end to the night and its battered bodies, and its ripped up panties, and its tongues stained with thoughts of don’t tell so-and-so, I can’t break her heart
I reach for the end of days,
I reach for the roots of the tree, for the mountain’s peak, for the skull of the dragon, for the bulldozer, for the machinery of now
And I, sawdust between my legs, cracked like a broken twig, howl from the pit of the last toothless, rheumy-eyed martini:
It’s the end of the world, boys,
Lift up your skirts
And the band played on…LOVE your work! Still reading it two ways! And love the mystery. 😉
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Oh, thank you very much! 😊
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You are a star!
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You’ve made my night. Thank you 🙂
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Your poetry is so refreshing! Delightfully entertaining! I want to go there, wherever there is!😂
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Haha, me too! Thanks again!
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Aaaaahhh! That’s the one! 🙂
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Yessir…😉
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I want to paint like you write! 🙂
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You’ve just made me smile very wide…thank you 😊
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Awesome. Perfectly expressed. Entertaining and powerful in its message. Bravo. I loved this.
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Thank you very much! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Wow!! I want to read it again and get lost in your writing,it left me stunned.
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Thank you for the wonderful comment! I am so glad you feel that way 🙂
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It’s truly a piece of art,to be sure.
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Thank you again!
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Thank you for the beautiful writing that you gave us,the readers.
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Articulating the feelings I experience after reading a poem like this can sometimes be a struggle for me…However, if you were to interpret my face and my silence and my breath, I think you would instantly know that you’ve achieved victory here.
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In fact, that was a perfect response…thank you.
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… In fact, I consider you an original specimen of the most elevated kind. I’m sure you belong to that natural aristocracy of minds that owe infinitely more to nature than to art… 🙂
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Following a compliment of that magnitude, I can only—simply and humbly—think to express my gratitude. You have succeeded most wonderfully in rendering me speechless…
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Va bene… Ti auguro una settimana bella e intensa. 🙂
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Tante grazie a voi 🙂
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Loving your page. Keep killin it
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Thank you very much!
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Amazing images – ‘sky-high panty lines’ being a personal favourite, if I may.
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Haha…thank you 😊
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