Before They’d Even Braved a Kiss

When we arrange our naked

limbs to face each other,

entertaining prospects

of an intimacy,

do you feel as strange as I do?

I’m sensing something very near

I do not understand at all.

I don’t think it’s fear.

If Eve and Adam had a fall,

it must, before they’d even

braved a kiss,

have been a sensory

descent like this.









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Spring Ain’t Comin’

Spring ain’t comin’,

so let’s all go to hell

Who knows,

it might be swell.









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So Here We Are

So here we are gadding about

Upanishadding doubt

not minding the bind

we find

we’re in

and not very much believing in sin.










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On Their Own

Imagining that images have meaning gives them meaning

but on their own they do not seem to care.

Friends think what you draw are surely versions of yourself

but what you draw has no idea you’re there.










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