texture
February 29, 2012
I taste the sea
through eyes
marble tear-pricked
longing stained in years
and the light between
shall fade
as I try not
to blink
crescendo’s caesura
the notes are carried away
on a starling’s wings.
at 79 rue de Varenne
January 4, 2012
Green grows thick
beneath leaden feet
August’s ache
copper coin moon’s
light
pools
in argent tears
yesterday’s sun
below the curve
I lean in
breath’s soft hammer
and kiss
the cold comfort
of mute marble
of a happy loneliness.
Pi[e]ty
July 3, 2011
Michelangelo's Pieta
Hewn from Carraran flesh
washed by a winter sun
polished porous pity
a death given life, still
silicate smooth
contoured
MAnmade lines
carrying thought
comes to be
becomes
the subject
of an inanimate object.
A son’s cold flesh untouched
a mother’s hand slack stone
unsullied sorrow
in a natural face
devout hardness
flowing weight
obeying gravity’s pull
stubborn science;
a full heavy heart
compassion : submission
hymen hymn
a beautiful bloodless hole
his stigmata
his sacrifice
unseeing eyes
heaven’s angle uncrossed
hope sublime
slips
earthwards.
