Transcendence

my mind- not enough
room in my cerebellum
for the universe
and her infinite beauty-
be gone eternal darkness!

Daydream

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

Embroidery

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

Paper Afternoon

paper afternoon
a stage set in broad daylight-
life away from you

Silver Beauty

my soul aches-
inflamed canker my mind's tongue
ceaselessly fondles-
to caress your silver beauty
with my unrefined lead arms

Swan Lake

sibilants settle
pink petals on passion's pond
enchanted kisses
supple dancers performing
perfect pirouettes

March Shower

i wish
my kisses
were raindrops
pelting your body
in a march shower

Chocolate Love

sensuous beauty
coats my liquid-centered mind,
melting in the heat-
you are the taste of desire
spreading all over my tongue

Would You, Still?

sumptuous septet
soul-spirited and joyous
love's holy exhale
a nun's prayer softly uttered
breathless with thanksgiving

days waft heavenward
retrieveless sunbeams captured
in love's dreamcatcher
not one granule of sand lost
from life's ever flowing glass

Again

white sables cloak
wintery morning branches
glistening down
drifts heap in my mind's corners
allure's accumulation

throughout the day
a snowglobe's hypnotic spell
mesmerizes me
thoughts of you and me falling....
in love....all over....again

Someone Else's Mind

each time i journey
o'er your transcendental form,
lacking an atlas,
i finger-paint a map of
beauty so overwhelming,

the landscape seems like
a fantasy in someone
else's mind.

Romantic Definition

i watched her disrobe
firelight dancing on her skin
how was i to know
desire's definition
was not the same in all lights

from glowing embers
curling wisps of smoke arose
hearth to chimney draft
memories of e'en's romance
carried to the galaxies

Inlet Flame

at the inlet
waves crash against the break wall
snow begins to fall
her voluptuous body
heating the hearth of my heart

Sacrifice

dropping a hundred
in the brass offering plate
the lone sacrifice
i ever make in my life
is letting you out the door

Club 21

mid-winter morning
your twenty-first birthday
radiant sunrise
white carnation petals beam
in an unrelenting rain

Fantasia

Endless fantasia-
My fairytale forest's find?
e'ergreen enchantment.
lesser, deciduous thoughts?
the richest soil for love.

Monkey's Paw

the monkey's fist
will not release a sweet
though his captor looms-
i understand such greed
each time i hold your hand

Organic

your beauty
is organic poetry
supple rose petals
not a museum fossil
but a living specimen

Anesthesia

in the violent
radiance of her beauty,
light fills my retinas,
mind, nerves, bones- every cell-
with explosions of color.

my senses dissolve
into shimmering lakes
on snow-capped mountains-
only in her absence does
the anesthesia wane.

Pre-Occupation

in my mind
so pre-occupied
with you
there is no room for peace
no room for quiet