Sufficiently Akin

Our temperaments

seek temperaments

sufficiently akin

to reassure

that what we

register as lure –

and others

see as sin –

is not the hell

that they

believe

we’re in. 








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On Watch

Minds got out of hand today.

Consciousness proliferated in improbable array

across your laundry and your crotch.

Everything’s on watch.










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Cold Today

Blanketing – insensate freeze –
an endlessly re-run reprise
of twenty-seven cold degrees –
something opens, something sees –










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Pleasure in a Promenade

Take pleasure in a promenade.

Walk instead of fly.

Wear your wings as ornament.

Dazzle passersby.












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Every Time You Look Around

Every time you look around

some new intruder’s there.

Both of you are naked --

can’t fake it when you’re bare.

No,

that isn’t true.

Intruders lie like bandits

clothed or unclothed – so do you.





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