Three Muses


Aoide
the debris, the guitar
she left was sleeping,
was gathering, the dust
trailing her sylph with
knife tips and cypress
of pink going by,
the edge of a fracturing
nail was a war
on memory, the
shifting towards
was a foreward,
this morning of sand.

Mneme
easy little paste, blue flies, a sovereignty in our
salvation dispenser, noise wandering up her Persian
landscape;
she is standing in the color of the air, nowhere in everything.
her head is a receptacle, listening to
the endless beach, pieces of sculpted half-lives,
which half is inside the desert sea,
the bare stage?

Melete
Wherever were my welds,
My mounds, my wounds?
It flies under me, your picture,
A war on memory, fatherless day moon;
The night of an American sundown.
Mirrorwalls or time moving forward.
A lineal system of interruptions
Betray our indirect spin, towards
Forewords,
Darkness becoming light,
In the beginning of the epitaph
Everywhere is the face of God.
And when we become blind,
With your body in the past,
With you choreographed finally
Under grass, we put away
Your shoes under looking glass. 

Terpsichore

Sonnet #2


Uneven in exact poetic terms,
We are old liars, our parents bed lice.
Immortal as I myself have done two
Pedestal declines, two and three, princely
Those principles, this point, orbits by this
Head,  between artifice and style; by an
Audition pleased me with wood melting tongue.
Manner method, an old legend of flat
Rounder worm in her anise seed center:
Ceremonies of conium: someone
Said before my feet cut short our words:
Air or breath?

“a cock to Asclepius,” Socrates is dead.
Twelve pieces of skin around the earth.
Sunium to Phasis in Harmonia,
Twelfth piece of skin around the earth.

“Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that is to God for Israel, is -- for salvation”

September 8, 1981: Adelphos, listen! The beast of Revelation is nothing but alcoholic eyes and dead skin. He came from Indiana to Las Vegas with no other purpose than to shit out his last days in a path of paper gold, plastic misery and cheap tar junk. A cream neon cross with Richard Chamberlain eyes sits restless and bound, stumpy bloody palms nestled into the auburn hair of a demon’s chest. Beware brothers, of the concessions and confusions within your desire.

He peels his multiple eyes into his white neck fat. He pulls his blue collar shirt over the alien mass of dried milk. He grunts and walks away with your money.

“We was painted grass, a pack of cigarettes, and you sit there in your fucking piss and shit, you don’t fucking work. If you wanted, the girls’ll get off in the morning, give away a free one on yer’ walk. Run them errands, take yourself down a little bit. Fuck everything you can, you ain’t goin’ nowhere when you come around here. Cat houses and liquor, look around. I suggest a sweet kid walk up Sixth from now own.”

He rises in erasers, playing in the sand, serrated cans, crossing the stoplights with receding acrobatics. The divine have lost interest in keeping track of the little pieces of dust, a pollen womb of eyeless headless flies. Your church basement mouth, a fucking souvenir.

I saw a blind man leading his dog, I saw a blind man leading his dog

Face her in a blue downtown, artificial sodium light,
A brown part of a tooth sticks out of her face,
Asymmetrical lipstick, the smell of wax on
Violated yellow nicotine air, spoken bicycled voice,
A throat smoke sore, caked toad hands, and
Cannibal waste on a
conquered plate, my eluded
elongated medulla and
mechanical fingers sit on necks, come by
bar lights slivering out of the windowed corners,
Grabbing clothes and running games:
Waiting, to go waiting, silence.

Waking nicotine air
Scarboy, I myself have done
Two and three, just
Violet mumbling and humming
And disintegrating.

Ice-covered proverb abandons your pride, sightless gentleman lead a history plague
Down your thighs, and you surmised…red roses to survive.

I saw a blind man leading his dog, I saw a blind man leading his dog

Wood Sugar

When we too parted in blind reflections

Better as ideograms, left out on a thread.
Have you tasted the mild
milk in the red cup, drifting down
your side, always in an Eastern arc?
I put it on my lips
And breathed
A Dog Spring,
collapsing in slivers
of penetrating rain.
We said the letters over again,
Spelling flower and petal strokes.
Your lips I left covered,
And what was left after
We our hour then upon your chest?
The light rain of this day
Only half past,
the violent gray of memory.

I have thoughts that escape me
upon your angular paper thin flesh.
When we two met, it was in,
In warm Easter skin, facing west;
I come to you now, with a prayer upon the mast. 

“Transmitting light but causing sufficient diffusion to prevent perception of distinct images.”

Wood Sugar

Have you tasted the mild
milk in the red cup, drifting down
your side, always in an Eastern arc?
I put it on my lips
And breathed
A Dog Spring,
collapsing in slivers
of penetrating rain.
We said the letters over again,
Spelling flower and petal strokes.
Your lips covered in a thick wax,
And what was left after
Our hour upon your chest?
The light rain of this day
Only half past,
the violet gray memory.

I have thoughts that escape me
upon your angular paper thin flesh.
When we two met in
In warm Easter skin facing west,
I came to you a prayer upon the mast.

The sun rose to a song between our voices.