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Should I Find You There In the ruins of cold memories Winter’s debris collecting In the corners, cracks In the street Should I find you there- In my sleep, my thoughts And no where else Could still be enough To glisten In the roar of the waves in my ears In the prickle of sun-pins on my skin I shine On the weight of a feather and soar Somewhere between the horizon And your front door In the distance In the ceiling tile, the disco stars flicker Beneath wine-lit lamps couples kissing I listen To the gossip carry on And on and on All night cabaret, I navigate Through the horns of Ellington, sirens of Gerswin, across the swaying floor Moving to the brass color’d laughter Smiling with rose burgundy and tinsel’d safire Drifting in and out of rhapsody’s blue Hypnotic note, not knowing why, when Or how we came to cross this moon-struck street With flowers in your hair, pearls from your ears Ribbons between my teeth, all in love With love and nothing else All fall harder like mountains at your feet Standing like giants or a burning angel Delicately balancing before my eyes That I could not explain, undo or deny The beauty you’ve captured inside In the aftermath- April snowkill Leaves the ground spiderwebbed And soft in the mud Should I find you there- In the migrations of gray, in the sand In the shapes of seconds In the season of poppies inside an hourglass Eventually kissing the ground in death Just to stay alive Life and nothing more Could be enough to make Kingdoms crumble and generations adore The gleam In the rainbows through a mirrored quartz In motion, on light, shadowed and star-flung Silhouettes emasculate floating up into space In constellations painted with immortals And imaginary animals, I horde my faith Slowly drifting into the holes The darkness implodes, I race On engines of speed and radiate Somewhere between the apocalypse And your open gate In my prayers, on a pillow, in the dark Underneath fiction’s imaginary lark My brow twitches wide and long While the gossip goes on and on and on From cocktails to nightcaps Lifting off from the stool rocket jut box Out the tavern window feeling the flush Of inappropriateness- love too tall For exaggeration Too small to hold in a locket’s heart keep For all Will fall like golden treasures at your feet Claiming the powers of ambassadors Or the gift of a poets creation Persistently fighting defeat That I could not comprehend, change or deny The beauty you’ve captured inside |
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