going deeper

getting darker

 

always getting colder

getting older

 

the best parts

sinking down

 

falling out

off

 

falling away

 

allowing the

skeleton

 

to emerge

in white splendor

 

to

decay

 

to

dust

 

to

scatter

around

and

around

 

by the

whistling

of robins

 

______________

 

 

by the whistling of robins

we are in a circle now a

circle within a sphere made

of globes

 

there is a line

in space

between

unfeeling atoms

 

and all that is you

 

how is this so?

 

that from unfeeling atoms

comes you?

 

the answer is in the line

 

in the middle of the middle

underneath the underneath

inside of the outside of the

inside and over the underneath

into the middle of the middle

 

go there

and find nothing

 

not a sound

not a picture

not a memory

not a moment

not a poem

not a fly on the window

 

find nothing there

and know

same

 

 

______________

 

 

this is you and

this is me

 

standing by the river

 

in the shadow of

steel and smoke

 

in the rich green dirt

in the auburn snow

with the dead fish

and the smell of life

 

gone south

 

by the river

with the slow moving squirrels

 

and the singing timeclocks

in the black grass

in the glass and blood

 

with the acid jelly skank

run ramshod over the meadow

 

the smell of life

is an ugly rose

 

_______________

 

 

let me smell you

my love

 

bury my face

in your neck and arms

 

and taste the salt sweet

flavor of you

 

my love

 

my love

 

hold me touch my

hair

 

touch

my hair

 

touch it

 

my hair is soft

do you remember?

 

let me hold you with my eyes

 

may i?

 

please.

 

see inside me

 

where my heart is

 

see me there

 

see me in the sound of my heart

 

can you hear it?

 

 

i know you.

 

let me tell you that i know you.

 

i know who you are.

 

though you have been many faces

i see you there

 

in blue cool sheets

 

in summer tornadoes

 

in silver shimmering sky ships

 

in bottles of cherry wine

 

and

even with my eyes closed

 

even with my eyes closed

 

even with my eyes closed

 

i see you there.