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PERHAPS, YET LEARN TO DANCE
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Although each person is confused
distressed, like a lightbulb or a shoe
all the polish or sizzled filaments
can not dim or hide
our unique blessing
once innocent
vocal and wide-eyed

At the garden, over twig tea
carp fins rake the surface
with a fan of color
reminding me
irrevocably
of the pattern on the wall 
of broken eggs
yolk and albumen
running clear and free
on the old debris
of tongue and groove
enamel shells
declamation and denial
the unborn, uneaten
from farce to finale
damp dots on what you see

Art
to cover all the places
my heart
gorging with extra feelings
must linger
like a patient in the asylum of love
staring at the ceiling
Find my ways
to crush a thousand now useless feelings
Like an editor of my own life
I erase phone messages of months
saved like a schoolgirl
for each honey of love
 
Perhaps I can say these things
without the chokers 
or the ring
double or solitaire
imported from anywhere
A gypsy shutter shielded me
from acknowledging the fragility
I knew at a glance all I know now
when we couldn't dance
not in the way you cringe to think
but in a tarantino of trust
that frees the whole of us

So many cues are there 
parading in my shorn hair
Like a songstress at the beach
the natural match beyond an angel's reach
beneath the sudsy scalp
are the memories and prides
friends chidings can not deny
That I loved love, love you
for a thousand reasons I will never hide
in ways that surprised
even me
who reached beyond all rational hesitancy
Because I knew
the kind of laughter we would make
without cue
without fake
anything
from 
mind 
and
heat
and
cock
and
sky

I'm glad the last picture of us
is under a canopy of morning cloud
light you describe
as always a little better in our imagination

Right now we are where we belong
healing our private wounds
listening to a sonata of Sunday rain
learning to ignore the pain
drinking elixir of regret
for what we can not beget
ruminating on the satisfactions
of how we did touch and feel
something time will never heal
Ti Voglia Bene

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