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Annunciation - For Cesar Vallejo

Arriving late to love
.
the broken tower
mourns its ringing ruin.
.
Long drought of air
stills the clapper.
.
But one breath, Trembler,

WANT

whiskey lips
peach wine tongue
anticipation
yearning
need
WANT
pink nails dragging
hard muscle
long deep sigh
breathe in
breathe out
language all our own
clinging
exploring
discovering
pure pleasure
relief
bliss
one final kiss

Here Come The Wild Birds Again - A Poem For Painters & Poets

for Barnett Newman, Abstract Expressionist Painter,
Cy Twomby, Sculptor/Painter, & Frank O'Hara, American

I Can't Close My Eyes - What Wings Are For

To myself without whom not
On the occasion of my 61st birthday

Of sweets and Paris...

I remember Paris, Oh! So well,
went there so many times as a child,
the gabled windows at Montmartre,
and the Seine’s whispers mild.
The Pont du Alexander in grandeur,
and the blinking Eiffel lights,
Champs Elysees taking my breath,
and merry laughter by the nights.
Notre Dame of Hugo’s Hunchback,
the signs of intellectual ferment,
the story of fall of the Bastille,
still evoke my childhood dormant...
The allure of the Mona Lisa,

A Grief Earned, Upon A Lover Leaving - An Ode Beginning & Ending With Lines From Shelley

for Viren, after Karthik

Are You Hungry? A Poem For Departure

for Karthik, departing

Who has twisted us like this, so that -
no matter what we do - we have the bearing
of a man going away...so we live,
forever saying farewell. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

*

out of hearing -

The Empress Of Contrails Writes Upon Darkness - Anxiety Of Influence

homage to Artur Rimbaud & Federico Garcia Lorca, & for Viren G.

"there will be no repose at the altars" - Artur Rimbaud

"the labyrinths
that time creates
vanish.

(only desert
remains.)