by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
One beada solitary jewelin search of the perfect society one starannouncing the parting of clouds beaded moccasins glowin the moonlightas we part the grassesof a peregrine path.
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
AimlessI straddle her doorwayphantom quietshe greets me “there’s a switch on the wallbehind you and a little to the right”she says“but rememberI live by available light”she says Emptiedmy dark pocket disgorges its dried fruitits seeds “I suspected you of coming to...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Ambivalent Sundays of autumneach with forsaken agendarain where sun threatenedwind where dead calm prevailed, and the aimless melismas of childrenhoarding deciduous treasuresbrilliant leavesacornsfind no appointment for me the wall between generations is naturalangels...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Figures on the other side of the doorwaymoving awaytheir thoughts in residence their forms flung to distant meridiansthey don’t live heredo they? visiting on occasionlike the jewels which adorn menot the neck clutchedlike the evening estuarydry as dust when tides...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
I brought you ocean scenery at bedtimewhen you felt too inland,soft waves broke upon my hand I spirited excursions with a pie-plate bottomtin can manwhom we lovedinvited upand gave a little windy fan hungry bugs came barging out the cracksI told you lacy quiet...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Riotous wild flowers defythe vandal winds of noon a ruler of skies and riverretracts his wingscareeningtalons outstretchedinto the rapids below the dam I watch and conjugate “ I am” in several dead languages may the tongues whose words for the movement of waterthe...
