"The law of love dynamics"
Nothing is unwritten. Every moment is carvedIn cut stone. What stranger brushes the crowdUnseen, unnamed, atomic,Your future lover, nemesis, anonymousNow but pulsing through spaceOn orbit to smack you some dark day,Your delicious snowball of doom? So go, solitary one, and...
"They're no longer clean as snow"
This is to complain about morning-sex sheets.The cream cheese muffins lightly nukedCouldn’t politely be refused, butThen you go and sit your bare ass down On my side, and I washed these sheets on Sunday.You know how anal I am. And...
"Never mind about the dirty pipes"
If I said something before about the plumbingWell, please, kindly disregard any such concern.I won’t bring it up, if it comes upI’ll waive it away For though there is some problem with the drainsIt really really ruinsMy peace of mind...
"The senses waken and wait"
There’s next to no sense in anything fun:Whims, like winds, startle roofs with their rages.We’ve liquored and loved, before, till the sunShushed us off to sleep like sober sages.Quiet, this house now keeps saner hoursWhere wandered wishes’ eyes I kiss...
"Ambling through the morning hours"
Is it safe to feed the ducks? Is it goodFor them? Probably not. They’ll fend for themselves,No? And these Sunday breakfast remains Are mine. Croissant flakes, and the bitterAche of coffee! Dull clouds driftAbove, and the light is so dim...
"Falling to sleep in the afterglow"
I may have to put on five or ten pounds,I so like this contentment. I like the feelof your belly, sticky, against my skin. You kiss me again, slippy tongue snug beneathmy earlobe. Hair fluffs against my throat. Your thighslides...
"Lovers and poets and tea"
If you’re going to live out contradictionsPut them all on the same page at least?I did, I did! I rage and pleaBut oh, I spill my tea.In all the fume and excitement I forget almostThis ecstasy dyes out the daily...
"Love and marriage in the Post-Modern world"
Ethics, this is the slutI told you aboutBlush summons sentenceServed knee-high I can tellShe’s never bent this far BeforeAlice wears brief skirtsWeighs the legal optionsVermont Sodom ThunderWonderStudent debt and studded collarGo-go justice prefers house music arrestBottled brunettesLatex and fishnetsPrime pills...
"Attending to the flight of song"
I thought to instruct the birds--now, wings bowed and boundI'm sinking in the diminishmentof a skylark’s looney tune Larking, loose-limbed and giddyturning skycarts in the dappled sunwhile I, enchanted, shrinkTo a little pool of bedazzlement--
"We're falling into place . . ."
You can start without meYou can finish tooI can come laterI can start you over again If I need you toI like to lick itI like to watchI like to think About it, how it happensHow I’ll go downOr how...