Thursday, March 22, 2012

This is not a love song

(It's a kiss, a brush of the knee, an utterance)


My list of what
I want in a man is
incomplete.
One who has a heart
beat
Who can do the Michael Jackson 
moonwalk
Who can spit
saliva or
poetry
Who wakes and aches but
not like my father
Who quieted his pain in
his oak drawer
chock filled with samples of
codeine
Who didn't think anyone knew
But I did. 

Who sweats
Who tastes
Who swallows 
me
Who carelessly
carefully caresses 
me
Who slurps red wine from
my navel
eyes closed
Whose delicate wreckage
endangers 
me.

Whose lashes
catch drops of
cool rain
Whose bare shoulders
defenseless 
absorb rays of
sun to beckon 
me.

Who craves salty popcorn and
cherry Icees
Whose nest is
his respite
Who believes in ghosts
the Loch Ness monster or
Cinderella.
Whose words are
a cadence, a scale, 
a flowering. 
Who walks or
runs or
screams
in whispers for 
humanity. 

If dogs could talk
what would they say to me
If cars could drive on their own
where would they go
If I could fly
would I soar? 


















1 comment:

  1. i think "this is not a love poem" is, somekind'a
    i like it.

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