Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums (1998)
“HAIKU c’mon man hold me touch me before time love me from behind your eyes.
TANKA c’mon man ride me beyond smiles teeth corpuscles come into my bloodstream abandon yourself to smell let us be a call to prayer.
POEM #3 I gather up each sound you left behind and stretch them on our bed.
each nite I breathe you and become high.
HAIKU how still the morning sea how still this morning skin anointing the day.
SONKU i feel your mouth on my thighs immac ulate tongue.
SONKU i hear the soun...d of love you unstring like purple beads over my breasts HAIKU i am who i am.
nothing hidden just black silk above two knees.
HAIKU in a season of beautiful clowns betrayals unapologetic.
HAIKU [question from a young sister] 1.
what’s wrong with being freaky on stage you a stone freak in yo own skin.
2.
at least we up front about this freakdom. at least we let it all hang out.
POEM Good morning, sex. How do you do?
Tell me how life’s been treating you.
You say what? Sex is and sex ain’t sex wuz and sex wuzn’t sex should be and sex has been on Times Square billboards on television, in the movies, in the lyrics dripping off pouting lips.MoreLess
TANKA c’mon man ride me beyond smiles teeth corpuscles come into my bloodstream abandon yourself to smell let us be a call to prayer.
POEM #3 I gather up each sound you left behind and stretch them on our bed.
each nite I breathe you and become high.
HAIKU how still the morning sea how still this morning skin anointing the day.
SONKU i feel your mouth on my thighs immac ulate tongue.
SONKU i hear the soun...d of love you unstring like purple beads over my breasts HAIKU i am who i am.
nothing hidden just black silk above two knees.
HAIKU in a season of beautiful clowns betrayals unapologetic.
HAIKU [question from a young sister] 1.
what’s wrong with being freaky on stage you a stone freak in yo own skin.
2.
at least we up front about this freakdom. at least we let it all hang out.
POEM Good morning, sex. How do you do?
Tell me how life’s been treating you.
You say what? Sex is and sex ain’t sex wuz and sex wuzn’t sex should be and sex has been on Times Square billboards on television, in the movies, in the lyrics dripping off pouting lips.MoreLess
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