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Warm

I’ve been wanting to tell you of the light
how I can’t quite describe that feeling
of being heather-flat in color where rain is
I am slowly heartbeat again, no matter how you feel it

flow with no meaning and that’s a good thing
this window’s our square to the outside
autumn’s trees on furry gray skies, bluer edges

I freeze under constellations, I burn ice cold in black night
like star factories, a sudden and unplanned eclipse
my ears, both cheeks grow numb, the radiator pops

but then they are warmed by the light
southerly facing photons here in Arles only now
not many years later as before that shouldn’t happen
but light has a way of bending back

You are lovely as the Sun
and so I paint you wonderfully golden, alive and ablaze

Chagall 2015

Pythagorean? Perhaps . . .

1 on 1
between you and me
the irrational root
of this 2
has us puzzled

Chagall 2015

Aerialists

I told her I’m sure there’s bells
you can’t help but hear them –
There! You see?

Twin peals in echelon
waves above up in pockets
then swoops below near the prey

This close to the ground we risk
broken wings, we need to find lift anywhere

If I just let go I get aloft
I have long known how to walk on ceilings
I have sat on chandeliers
and walked through upside-down window sashes

I step from this ladder through your second-floor window
to entreat your love, float gracefully down to the ground unhurt
unscathed in defiance of gravity, grateful

graceful as a balustrade slide in white tie and tails
I win and heads lose, we embrace only these end times
not before, that was then while this merely is

I revel now and still
counting the bells –
you can’t help but hear them

Chagall 2015

Late autumn hot
unique humid
sea breezes in-land
colors still ablaze
I a burnt copper
in setting gold sun
reflections, perfect blues.

Chagall 2015

Just Noshin’

She accused me of leaving
too much peanut butter behind
in the jelly.

I told her similarly you
vis-à-vis the cream cheese.

Chagall 2015

Comatose except perhaps in trances
I’m obliged to amble – a somnambulist I am
the wisp’s own will, a fleeting glimpse

As a flitter upon a cheek’s a lash
the softest breeze that wind can muster
flutters by

I’m lost in your shallow breathing
in a warm cocoon spun of chestnut tendril
sweet oily aromatique

It takes but a moment to finally cease
I wait just a beat, then you’ll know

Chagall 2015

Satyricon

She asked me how the party would be
I told her to think Fellini, she replied:
You mean to say they’ll have pasta?

Chagall 2015

It’s slow
sometimes cinnamon
can seem like syrup
jazzy like cymbals
symbols streak my brain
maybe just my ears
an especially clear day weekend
overhead everywhere bi-planes!

Chagall 2015

Zero G

She’d never known a tear
to defy gravity

They simply lift
invert then fall

little time
left now for wonder

Chagall 2015

I told her how freaky a chick she was
about the time that the mime walked in.

Chagall 2015