The Here Of Now

Time walks behind and ahead
of me here I am
in the bubble of now

my ghost
trapped in the mirror
between the glass & silver

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SMUGGLER(for Junie)

Crossing the border
of your death

I return
with the memory

of the memory
of the touch of your hand

hidden
inside my mind.

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I Invite Death

My arm
around your waist
this kiss
this embrace

I invite Death
& Desperation
to look into
our face

& laugh
at their despair
& desolation.

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Before Bedtime

She January's me.
I July her.

She Monday's me.
I Sunday her.

She Winter's me.
I Summer her.

It was clear
it would end

in tears

in tears.

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It Is Such A Secret Place, The Land Of Tears

Oh the extascy of sunlight on grass
& you lying naked upon it

as beautiful as any sonnet

only memory now...a shadow
stealing across my mind.

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Saving the Snow (for Helen)

'The snow is dying! '
she cries for the melting snow.
'Don't go...please...don't go! '
But the sun hunts the snow down
killing it without mercy.

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The Photograph’s Negative

She clutches
her sorrow

to her

like a ragged
ragdoll

she had when was
5

unwilling to part
from it

for anything
in the whole wide world

because her
sorrow

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To Sleep Or Not To Sleep

To sleep
perchance to...snore!

I can only dream
of peaceful sleep.

Like MacBeth
you've murdered sleep.

My sleep!
Ay, there's the rub!

I lie awake
misquoting Shakespeare

to myself.

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Little Crocues Of Happiness

At first
the loss

& the world losing
all meaning

nothing

meaning

anyt hing

anymore

& then the loss
of the loss

& the world
finding you

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In the Bright Colours of Love

Our tongues
like little fishes

darting in & out
of each other's mouth.

Here...a playful
little fish.

Here...a fish
vivid with lust.

There...
a fish

arrayed
in the bright

colours of love.

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