Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Twenty Four Hours


To Ian,

frail, pale, with vapid eyes,

baritone, brother, born child of God but backboned by the Devil:


I lie down when I listen to you, keeping the tears

swirling in saunas of effervescent emotion: Marco Polo,

drip-drop, hopscotch, child's play – recreations from yesterday.


My joy is not the next man's: from Maryland to Macclesfield, mundanity.

I'm forever obsessed with the sunrise because the new dawn fades

into a perpetual autumn sunset with free-falling foliage,

fumbling towards the ecstasy of ash and dust,

sun holding sway until the final moment.

So, this is permanence....



July 15 – May 18

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