sandalwood poem #6
I would enjoy
even your telephone
sadness for a
little while
that voice your
center a cobalt blue
drop the eye of the
dragon my
rill of pleasure
come home
sandalwood poem #5
the two of us here
and solitary our hopes of
dreaming a landscape in
ribbons the night
a cold cruelty
the long crossing
and the waiting
brakemans lantern
o
sandalwood poem #4
my anger is hidden
I speak in whispers
my spirit is ill
waiting for an angel
who will tell us
what will become of us
I say the wind beats me down
my soul does
old emblems
where we have gone
into our other selves
we do not need to
find each other
at home in that country
or bother to know
what we know
beloved things
familiar images
a plac
boop
I talked with this rabbi this was in california
he came to celebrate a wedding had these suspenders two columns of betty boops
I said well rabbi those are some suspenders he said he liked t
outdoor stage
this space so empty in the wind
a silence this evening where it seems
only the silence itself has meaning
until one night in a thousand
this nondescript shred of humanity
creeps in
sister miriams poem
now a dark matter our perfumed space polished with light a woman combing her long hair beyond existence beyond our coming and going
where his sandals were a scent lingering fro