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Poetry

When I Met Eva, She Had Already Died

March 27, 2010

When I met Eva, it was after she had passed on from this world and gone into the next one.
A friend on Twitter wrote, “Rest in Peace Eva http://65redroses.livejournal.com – thank you for sharing your spirit of love & courage”. In less than 140 characters, I was motivated to see who Eva was.
Eva Markvoort [...]

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Untitled

September 23, 2009

The moon dropped her clothes into
the garden pond, and utterly enchanted with
love for her
I swallowed the sky.
It tasted like rain
and wine
and dandelions
and babies
and made my heart
smile like the sun.

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Highway 35 to Dallas, 1989

September 23, 2009

Black ribbon of highway
A nocturne with no moon, of
sighing tires and rumbling engine and
a wistful goodbye to all the things I’ve never needed
Too much to ride and I need
a drink or a broken down hotel’s sagging mattress and
fuzzstatic radio trapped in some starpierced stratosphere between
Mexican talk shows and country stations out of Waco
A brawl in [...]

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I Burn For You

September 22, 2009

I burn for you
On fire in sweetest agony and begging for mercy to be utterly consumed enraptured filled and the sum of my being rearranged flayed from my bones and molded under your hands against your flesh against mine around you around me to the peaks of triumphant cumulus clouds exploding in waves of fire [...]

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Cloudburst

September 21, 2009

Her breath stirring expectant leaves that
whisper sweetly under warm
hymns of the cicadas
Building higher and more majestic her
voluptuous cumulus rises in a shuddering sigh
her face growing dusky with growing ardor
her ragged gasps ringing hot against my cheek
Thunderclap of her climax and silver rain laughing down
on this withered land, quenching my parched lips.
I turn my face to [...]

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