moon wax

night waxing
moon shadows,
give rise
to voices.

murky whispering
in misty mind,
confused brush
faint strokes silent.

wanderer at sea:
drifting sands fall
further into wells
darkly forgotten.

moonlight's premonition
shrouds dawn delayed,
early birds
singing not for me.

voices raised
by night shadows,
moon waxes philosophical
questionless answers.

know it

i want there to be
no branch for the bitter wind,
no refuge for the melancholy day,
only perfumed night guarded by roses.
let there be dead eyes among the living,
living blood poured over gravestones,
reaping years of marrowed soil.

search the crow's nest,
find my heart there.

know the thorn which wounds me
in its defense of me, wounding me,
fist tight clenched.

listen

i want to know
if you listen,
how can you understand?

listening to me,
how is it possible?

i am only this naked branch
bearing some strange
failing bird of unassuming
feathers.

you could be a daisy, buttercup,
grassy breeze or warm voice.

me:  soliloquy to the sun.
i look to you
and i see the moon
in shadows.

illusion

illusion--
elusive!

love--
tender branch.
succulent breath
whispering
inaudible.

faint star
dwindling,
twinkle
behind clouds
shrouded.

love--
exhausted,
expensive
high cost,
lost self.

love--
delicious cherry
beyond reach,
seeking you with
eyes unseeing.

love--
swollen dream
incomprehensible,
uninhabited sleep:
restless dawn.

love,
illusion:
elusive!

want, not

i want it, not wanting--
   is this possible?--
nothing, save blood-colored honey,
the rose that never blooms,
tarnished silver,
the impossible!

love swords

love--
a thousand little kisses,
how many swords of agony?

touch the falling night.
slow pirouette of stillness, one-footed.
single-eyed, the clock stops.

ocean eternal! give up your salt,
forget my name but grant me
wings, or scales, moonlight scattered.

silence is not golden:  leaden.
dark purpose of sinking, heart
beating...itself against the wall.

love--
a thousand little kisses,
each one:  sword of agony!