Monday, June 21, 2010

Shelf Life



Talking about the days eyes
pink, herbaceous, double blooms
and the kingdom of bondmen
or the use of weird [fate] ziplock.
The canny lasses pass us by
leaving faint traces of smile.
We are interesting mannerisms
to the eyes of night, in the mixed
behavior of genetic produce or
lait caillé, MA. Dust settling on
a lightbulb in the supermarket aisle
[dreams of pushing my son around
canned food that does not expire].
Smoldering tobacco trance, the waltz
of fumes and days like old jewels
laying there as if digesting mice.
Expiry dated, unadulterated good,
a chapter of bringing charm to nether
perfected as the summer ends, sibilant
in the dairy section of a ghostly train.



Saturday, June 12, 2010

Obviousness



Things speakable and things
unspeakable, untiring and
un-painful strife, battles and
slaughterings of men. Piercing
[cries?] of horses, mortals [on
the beach?] warms good things
[mixed?] with evil... two to me
both. Gold greatly angered being
burned by blazing fire, having
kindled. Sea-faring the wave
[or the noisy sea?] in war and
might. One after the other and
these things... Gold.


Friday, June 11, 2010

I never talk to strangers



Era você que cheirava cola a beira-mar e
me oferecia o paraíso numa latinha de Coca-Cola?
If yes, onde estão os meus 100 dólares pela uma
hora de conversa, Sing-Sing?

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Questions of matter



What is it you like, short legs,
keeping my arm from moving
like that, in groins or your head?

Was is it you want, red head,
when you move in closer to
the warm palm of my hand?

What is it you do, upper lip,
when you open up in smile
not telling me the real kick?

What is it you are, John Keats,
always there in my throat
like a lump of meat?

Whatever you are, these things,
questions of flesh, blurred vision of old?
I'll have to find out by another means.



Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Breakfast



Here we are - 135 north 5th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York,
for your first heap of freshly picked
strawberries from south Jersey
and 2 eggs, any style. maybe Benedict,
and a side of grits. Above Mason-Dixon
caramelized grape-fruit with mint.
Some milk? Dairy or Mimosas? You
do like sparkling things [this month?]. I know,
fig jam and brioche. Few words for breakfast
and something about the light in June. "I'm
not hungry" - I frown as you examine the
plate for any leftover food. I'm hot, I'm
the dad [the silent type]. And you look
lovely today, napkin on your lap, as the
sun flickers over the butter knife.


Saturday, June 05, 2010

You know who I am



You do right? Time and walking lengths
some of the fear of Spain, you have none,
you chose the living, at a very young age.
Who is leading anyway? The dog or thee.
The very understanding of the world, me
the cloud-dump, the cancerous lung the
vent frais of yet another matin inbred.
You know who I am and you like that
and I like that, oh how I like that. You
know it by heart, and the shape of recasts
regurgitate. For me, at me, from to place
is now, peut-être. You know me. Maybe
you do. I have the dead, you eat them,
your move, but I guess I ate them too.
You know who I am, this winter icing
over powderburn [that was confessing]
to the crime I've earned. Guilty to have
led you here, turbulent, induced body,
translator of one language to other than me.
You know who I am, nickel and sweat and
copper. C'era una volta, you know that too.
You know who I am and I like that your seas
are as black and as deep as the ones I can be
in this place where I am and you know who.