Hope

all pleasure-
food, drink, love-
lay ahead
in lengthening shadows.
the most re-
freshing moments
await in the dark
ample lap of e'en

Daydream

midday brightness bruised
desire, scudding my mind's
omnipresent beam
oscillates 'twixt love and lust
strange and shimmering dream

Blanket of Stars

your spaceous beauty-
my heart's great wings beat beneath
a blanket of stars

Aneurysm

distended vein swells,
damned by dilating beauty-
brain aneurysm

Prayer

god, pity me now,
the most desolate spirit
possessed by beauty!
my mind melts like paraffin;
her radiance owns my soul.

Embroidery

infinite beauty
wondrously adorns my life;
rainbow on charcoal-
an acre of embroidery
on a postage-stamp canvas

Love Flows

love flows
from my fissured heart,
scarlet rivulets and dribbling deltas.

love flows,
sipped for lonely hours
from hamlet's suicidal skull.

love flows-
my soul weeps
tears of fecund emotion.

Romantic Ragu

caressing in bed,
two bodies meld into one-
romantic ragu

Loneliness

i swallow my loneliness,
a handful of liquid thistles.
my congealing blood flows
smooth as a gravy avalanche.
i sip the hemlock of separation till it
disappears into the glass that contains it.

Gravity's Bars

your sensual gravity,
your radiant magnetism,
encompasses my soul
with iron bars.
how can i be expected
to concentrate, when the tides
of my mind are controlled
by such celestial beauty?

Ashes

my love poetry
ashes from my blazing heart
toss on more kindling