HUMIDITY'S REPRIEVE

PUT YOUR RUBY SLIPPERS ON

                       To James Brown

 

  

An island

                        

                         always obtains in paradise,

if only that far —

 a line up ahead,

virtual as the horizon: 

                                           brilliance,

 

simmering, down on its luck;

brightening hope,

amounted to another day — visible

behind: 

                       caudate like a dinghy

or you on water skis;

this boat eventually leads home.

Every lightning bolt shall show it:

immovable amid the flux,

assured above the tide;

throughout the forest, evergreen.

TRUE IN LOVE

     Do

                         because you want —

                                                no one must

                       

                                anything.

CODE

              
              True genius cannot stint,       
                                                      never ceasing receiving:

                                  

                                  generosity,

                its truth —

                                                     self-evident,

 

  best taken with a grain of sand;

                                                     
                                                      code,

                       







                
                  hole tangible

                       
                             through which eternity,

                                                                   perceived,
                                              cedes
                                                         belief               

                                                                     . 

CONCATENARY

  

Does a catenary express purrfection?

   

       
 elliptical at both ends — parenthesis

                                                      licking its paws?

 

         

                                                    
                      Cheshire, measure presents —

       
            stretch, gifts extend:

                                      the yaw and the law, maw

 

  

        and maw and more, of temporality —

  

                 









                or still, yet hanging, posed another way:

 

                                                            







                               “What is now?”

FILIAL PROPRIETY

Every man

             feels the boy 

 

                in a father's

                                                  shadow.

EMOTION SICKNESS

 

                    

                        

                    struck by desire

 I fell 

                    at its mercy, 

                                                    

                                                   feeling

                                                                none.