Thursday, June 06, 2013

We Gasp as Laughter and Desire


We sit and watch the last sailboat chase bleak
Ineluctable clouds over the evening horizon and
Then you say sing me a song! Dance me a dance!
You say offer your voice and body to impoverished
And penetrable night and find our frightened selves
Opening in those distant clouds that strip us cold
For the waiting minotaur sniffing each rippling wave
Centuries and centuries before we were born
Huffing all over hell and back for our singular scent
We who know there will never be a moment more
Like this one this wind we face these leeward spouts
Racing shoreward like diamond scales flaking from
The broad back of the serpent sea you say O sing
And dance for me for we always find us in the wind!


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