Monday, December 26, 2011

Poem for Monday, December 26, 2011

Sohbet

The universe is tangled in your hair.

I try to unravel it with sweaty
fingers. A gray silence crept in awhile
ago and it is draped over us. We
breathe it in but we are having

a supreme conversation. Our eyes
discuss politics in intervals of blue
and black. Your leg tells mine its
hairs tickle. Hands swap electrons
while foreheads whisper secrets

and so forth. We must never stop
this, I say for real, as your perfume
escapes up my nostrils. Honeysuckle.
You wince, thinking I will sneeze.

Your hair lies knotless on the
pillow now. Nothing is a mystery
anymore and I am in love with your
rhetoric. A truck backfires

outside. A baby robin chirps for its
breakfast. When it grows dark again
the half-naked moon will look like
butter. We will talk about it.


Thursday, August 11, 2011

Poem for Thursday, August 11, 2011


Mea Culpa


I told you when you entered
the kingdom of heaven
Michael and the rest
of the angels would serenade
you, would pluck
crystal harps
that can stop your heart
for the second time.

I told you you wouldn't
go blind from the
celestial light
because you should be
used to our earthly sun
glowing all around you
jealously, orbiting you with
his head bowed to your
tan feet.

I told you
you won't bleed there
and if you do
it will be gold, coagulate and
I will suture your wound
with a righteous kiss,
I will kiss you
in heaven.

But how was I to know
you'd be handed
a blemished robe,
a bag of bones?

How was I to know
you'd be there
before me,
my lips light years
below you
(chapped and quivering)?