The stream (all workshops)
Tarpaulin
Let me be
your human canvas
carve me like
you would on stone
my fingers bleed
words upon the page
yet I am only
flesh and bone
pacing my steps
upon the stage
only mortal man
who writes his soul
crying out
to the thin air
I beg of you
to treat me fairly
look down upon me
if you dare
but don't ignore me
with your silence
for I would be
your human canvas...
and like the tender glint
of a thousand august stars
that tangle in darkness
I travel over you
my breath
the nameless wind of sky
exhaling
between peaks of mountain breasts
my sweat
of summer salted seas
falls
in a gentle shower
as if to moisten the mound
of your fertile flesh
you wash against me
like waves over smooth stone
and I swallow the warmth
of your flooding stream
for you, I'd go through one hundred thirty six realms of hell
my eyes burning with poems,
place the red leaf of it in your hands,
I would breathe into your mouth
your Venus on a half-shell,
newly emerged from your
vision of her solitary confinement....
her brilliant hair flowing around your ankles
the pleasure of your love
plucked from Aegean Seas
and etched into the pale blue brocade
of sky between your need
and your holy desire
her star falling
into your body
a semi-rude awakening
uncalled for
who opened the blinds
who let the sunshine in
where is my identity
it was right here last night
where did this one
come from
I hate new things
well, it seems I used to
now having second thoughts
I really do like it
this new sense suits me fine
"off with the old, on with the new"
who said that
was someone here
I thought was a dream
no, really, what happened
I am smiling before noon
this could be our
documentary
soundtrack would be
the tv you leave on
how every night
the orphan of us
grows lonelier
inside its shadow
here, clothes
remain in suitcases
we fear hanging
preferring bruised
from travel
the manager
tells us
previously
she was beautiful
before the hammer struck
before the man
smashed open her head
and broke it apart
as you undress me
i observe
the brushstrokes of blood
oh little trembling bee
i am finely tuned in
(to your wavelength)
and turned on by
your swaying body
thus i announce my desire
little bee my heart racing
at your name's mention
pale faced and weak in the
knees (when you're near)
i love your sweet glances
with all the chances
we are taking while trying
to disguise our inclination
toward one another
My mind said no
Because of the wine
My body said go
Influence by the wine
I couldn't say no
Now I'm in a bind
My head is spinning
I can't say no
So you're winning
You scored a home run
I was out
Now We're done
We didn't know, so long ago
in our tiny textile town
when they closed the first mill down
it would not be the last to go
Everything would be alright
grown men working part time jobs
late night worried, anguished sobs
the unemployed now taking flight
The other mill was still going
long gone the days of over time
managers watching every dime
winds of change had started blowing
pushpin extravagance
the thoughftul look
the dream square
your arm moves across the space
between us,
rests on my breath
entwined in a lover's question mark
we sleep
the heat of our bodies a sweat lodge,
you carry
a medicine bundle
I hold a marriage basket
across the threshold of dreams
the spirit of heron and deer follow us,
nibbling on our flesh,
crows gather and serpents
rejoice,
we leave no dreams across a summer sky,
the burning bed catches fire,
our agreements carried by four wild winds..
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