December 19, 2012

• More December Poems!

  I’ve been great about staying on task and writing a poem a day.  However, I’ve been bad about posting them on my blog.  So anyway, here’s a bunch!  They are short so it won’t take me (or you I hope!) very long to catch up.  Will also post again tomorrow so there’s not so much reading at once.

  12/11/2012
  Autism, circa 1980

  In my dreams, the girls would tease,
  laughing as their weightless buyont bodies
  would take wing, helping them achieve flight
  as they skipped in a circle faster and faster,
  holding hands with their pockets full of posies,
  their feet getting lighter and higher
  toes gently scraping the ground until
  the wind held them suspended above the earth,
  their dimpled cheeks curved upwards
  as the cupid mouths screamed “catch up!”
  and even though I threw my body into the air
  I knew I never would.

  12/12/12
  Anthem for a Muse

  Her song eases the burden of love;
  Her song touches dreams,
  touches body with slick cool wetness.

  Her voice carries the weight of poetry;
  Her voice is electricity, is creation,
  washes body in light and diamonds.

  Her music is imagination and words;
  her music is ebullience and anguish,
  gives birth to body in psychosis and suspense.

  Her art is in the singing, in interpretation;
  Her art is the darkness of soul and the tremble of joy,
  it is the quiver of the body, the “yes” of what you’ve always wanted.

  12/13/12
  Question

  She asked me not to read
  anything that would keep her up at night.
  What is wrong with being nudged and prodded,
  being rolled and held by a lover’s words,
  being nipped and plucked by
  surreptitious syllables falling from the tongue
  that will lash and lick at you,
  leaving you weeping at the beauty of the dark?

  12/14/12
  Sentinel
  
  The guardian angel
  constantly disquieted
  porcelain face darkening
  in hues of uneasiness
  appeasement whispered
  on a perturbed temple
  clearing away the wreckage
  of an insensible mouth
  quiet breath and lip
  looking all the more
  like a child of heaven
  the halo a diffused light of tears.

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