June 28, 2011

• Haven’t posted in a while, dear reader

  Sometimes, when I have periods where I am on stage quite a bit, I sadly let my writing go for a time.  I wish there was a better way to balance both sides of my artistic life….music and writing, but as the old saying goes, there are only so many hours in a day.  When one is flourishing, the other is diminished for a time, but never forgotten. 

  While I haven’t been writing much in the way of poetry, a play I wrote will be produced this summer.  Indescribible and surreal.  Anyway, after a long hiatus, I started a few poems as well as a longer piece.  It has always been my desire to write an epic poem, something like Don Juan by Lord Byron.  I know, not much of a market for that sort of a thing…its not like you hear the words “Bestselling Poetry Collection” together in the same sentence.  Will this be the year I do it?  Who knows….stay tuned.

  In the meantime…here is something smaller that you will hopefully enjoy….a first draft, but its not a half bad start….

   

  Let us make music together
  as heat encircles, encloses
  drawing up a deep brain-melody

  I’ll take the song you put into my mouth
  and crush it against you in soundwaves;
  word and touch can do this

  Palm print against palm print
  I’ll hum as you murmur into my ear
  the clasping of one hand into another

  and there is just so much blue in your gaze
  that I have become a woman undone
  my dress gathered into ragged corners

  Your breath is thick on my neck
  the teeth and lips plucking from my strings
  a tune that you will tease out of me.

  “Sing for me, baby.”

   

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