this is a little bit of older poetry, as filler. i wrote this sonnet for a stupendorificalious girl in july of 2003. i like sonnets. i like classical forms in general, but especially sonnets. sonnet rhymes with bonnet. we’ve never actually kissed, incidentally, this is me as a writer imagining a hypothetical what-if and putting […]
Archive for January, 2006
nearly every poem i’ve written was inspired by a woman. often they’ll tell me something to write about, and i’ll write it. sometimes it is something they say in passing. occasionally it is a simple glance. they are the true progenitors of my work. it is good and fitting that they are women, as they […]
i try to avoid this meta-writing crap, and i promise this will be the last for a while. i keep having people write me emails commenting on a poem, which i love, but i also love getting comments posted here. it is a fetishistic thing. somehow it is more concrete, more real, when placed here. […]
one of natures little slicking slidings
holding up—neglect—in a facial womb
constant lubricating iller tidings:
our blood-red love beneath a swollen moon.
in passion|terse excitement|overwhelm
the lips foam with speckling spray of over
wrought,wreaked,worked,willed
wills that(ever)over reach
and leave dry tongue their only testament.
a nimbler ink than i would drift to tact;
description of its so-much baser use
as orgy-water-wine that whets the lips
[…]
she.jungle walks with heart of circling round
her future split bare like coco flesh or
mango juice let free to drip down face so
flushed with life well-lived and unseen wonder.
yet
a loss is dealt in e’er encircling
comfort by the teeming masses that lie
awake at night (a)wondering if they too are
alone. the throngs of drifting ephemera
that staunch the […]
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