GLORY AND TIME

A dusk darkened world

At every angle of touch

Your freckles glare

The morning

Surrounded by

The curve of shoulders

Under the covers

The blurring blades of hip-bones

Like French braids twisting

Our thighs lay

French kissing

Sleeping on a bench missing

Nothing in the world

Cause with you this way

I need no other distraction

Balancing on your limbs

Like logs floating

On the surface of the ocean

My life raft

Your left calf

In my right hand

Another day your loyal man

As we breathe into

The lush green walls

Cause every time

I open my eyes to you

I know I did something right

For now

The next best move

Is just rolling over into you

My jungle gym of limbs

Hair and bars

Swinging past Mars

Up on to Venus

You just kiss my face

Circle my lips with the tips

Of your fingers

Caressing under my skin

Seeing the children within

You whisper

That I’m just a big baby

And just a big maybe

I might just sleep in

A little bit longer

Pulling the covers like jackets

We twist

You turn

The bed cooks

We burn

And it’s just you and me

When the world

Washes by

As if life-

Was just some kind

Of secret time warp

Filled dreamscapes

Loving blind

Spilled stories

Glory and time

Mixed with emotions and memories

That begins and ends

Every day this way

As long as I can start and end

With you

I know that nothing else

Really matters

And I know that

The only thing

That really matters

In this moment in time

Is this moment in time

That only truly matters

WE ALL BLEED

Blood covered hands

And blood covered hearts

Smearing the covers dark

Together we slip

In the redness of the world

As deep inside

Of you

I am

Together

With the earth

We all bleed

Crunching

And cracking

The sweat and semen

Dry and crack

Every time we lay back

And adjust ourselves

Deeper into this sand box

Of deepened awareness

Sex is a mystery

Love is a mission

Together with maps

And calipers, spyglasses

And leather pouches

We scour the earth

For the sign

Passion, hunter

Ambition, hunger

Splintered with hope

Scratching, leaning

Can’t keep this fire

Silent

As everything we touch

Becomes gold

Everything ever touched

Touched by God

Dripping thighs

Tucked away in your eyes

The force field you keep

Confuses my gauges

So flying blinded by light

Through the darkened sky

High above the clouds

Something pulls

Closer and closer

Reaching for the moon

Sometimes your hands

Reach past this room

And the distance is

Your breath

Every room in the house

Wreaks of you

And your clothes

And clips, and wraps and scents

Like a sidewalk

I litter myself with you

Making it only hours

At most

Until I’m back in your arms

In your chamber again

The only place I feel safe

Refilling and refueling

In mid air we dance

Trance like children

Planting the seeds

Of tomorrow in the dirt

Of today

Praying white chapels

Falling like red apples

To the floor together

We go with gravity

We stay so close

During these times

Just holding on tight

For reasons

We just can’t seem to grasp

We don’t need to

Understand this clasp

Something from a life before

The book of Destiny

The look of intensity

Some kind of cosmic karma

Playing this circle of completion

We meet again

My love

Possibly a second time

Around the globe

The universe needs this

Plot to unfold

For I am the receiver

And you are the giver

I am your heart-beat

You are my liver

Hand in hand

Time spans across land

So much had to happen

To both of us

For this to finally

Happen

To both of us

We drove so far

In so many separate scars

Landscapes of different jars

Through mortar and tar

We shattered and frayed

At the ends

Now so strong

We pull together

Every night in my eyes

I see you in every disguise

The woman from centuries ago

I found you again

Was it Florence or Greece

Romania or Nice

Where we once lived

And livestock in the night

Hid, under sycamores

When the October skies

Turned to Orange

We became something

Grander than the great Winter

For the next century to come

This love is ours

And nothing in the Universe

Can stop this

For I am not pulling

Nor pushing

Just my eyes open

I am accepting

For I am the receiver

And you are the giver

I am your heart-beat

You are my liver

Blood covered hands

And blood covered hearts

Smearing the covers dark

Together we slip

In the redness of the world

As deep inside

Of you

I am

Together

With the earth

We all bleed

AND THEN I SEE

And so you cast this spell

Over me

Or was it just a rainy night

That made

Everything seem right

I have so much faith in myself

And the feeling I get when I know

It’s right

Yet there’s that fear

Late at night

Creeping on a bike

That sometimes wants to

Stand in front of the light

Causing an angelic eclipse

Of reality and bliss

Confusing the way

The water falls to the ground

Watching the puddles

Hearing the sounds

I sit alone and walk

Through this month

I must remember this is still

About me

Always about my trust

In you

And faith

And the way home

Hard to not put so much

Weight on your shoulders so fast

I can view the history

And see that I often ran out of gas

Suppose it makes sense

To go easy on the pedal

Holding back in ways

Would rather just punch it

But that’s what I always do

And then it’s only in the kitchen

Where I only see you

Just sitting here alone

Typing away

Filling pages of books

No one seems to read

Healing myself

From my own self inflicted need

Of needing something

Someone

My mother told me today

To be careful not to smother you

How could she say something

So relevant and we never even

See each other

She knows me without seeing

Me I was born from her flesh

Her blood is of mine

Her mind must be like mine

At times such a mess

Oh mother I must confess

Sometimes I want to blame

This all on you

Been difficult not to smoke

So many years of catharsis

My last real vice

Finally the time to kick

Chewing so much gum

Seems to work for now

Still in the kitchen writing

Always

Pondering

Knowing

Something is coming

Knowing this faith

Is real

I make believe

My whole life

And then I see

CHILDREN WILL UNDERSTAND

Swirling my hands and arms

Through this inertia

Music to my ears

Pushing my mind

Into complete

Expansion

This mansion

Of everything

I have ever known

Just blown into purple

Radiant flames

And amazes me

In a light show in my mind

With eyes wide open

I see both sides

Walking down these subway stairs

So lost in your current

So lost in your eyes

Embrace me new world

Take me to new places

In time

How could there still be

Places I have yet to run

How could I find

Yet another corridor of space

In my mind

Waiting for my subway car to arrive

So far traveled

Dancing in another world

My chemical princess

Something our children will understand

I no longer ask

Now I demand your hand

So lost in your eyes

Last night

Falling through space

Time continuum

Like some falling angelic rhythm

Effervescent colors

Of jellyfish

And satin clouds

Clouding my arms

So safe

In this heat wave

With you

Of mazes

My animal

You are my zoo

The draft blows my scarf

Flirting with my face

Baby you are everywhere

In this place

And I am with you

Let us make love in this den

Take us to another level of Zen

The choir sings me away

Close my eyes

And sway

The subway takes me down

This tube

Of life and memories

Sprawling, crawling

Gasping for air

For your sweat

You’re everything true

Tortures me

With lust

Clawing at my cage

Raging

This battle of passion

Aimed at you

Let me eat from your curves

Lay your jawbone

Into my waistline

Become my heritage

Like cocktails

Of humanity

Zumanity

Illuminating

Lost in love hullicinating

A fistful of your hair

In my hand

I have returned to primal

My spirit grows

And I don’t know how far

I will expand

Now this is high frequency

This is the true hour

Our love is power

Dipping my hands in this current

We are creating

Such a powerful source of light

Of life

Of inspiration

This is the juice of the tree

The beat rocks me

The love I run to

Every night

You are the space I grow toward

Universal freedom

Inside and out

I no longer believe in time

Headphones blaring

While you just keep blowing my mind

Swirling my hands and arms

Through this inertia

Music to my ears

Pushing my mind

Into complete

Expansion

This mansion

Of everything

I have ever known

Just blown into purple

Radiant flames

And amazes me

In a light show in my mind

With eyes wide open