WEEKLY ROMANTIC POEM FOR Tuesday, November 07, 2000 NEXT/PREVIOUS/ALL HOME
Windows
open
curtains
possessed by the wind
laughter
in motion
I
remember her walk
everyone
did
the
movement of her skirt
swallowed
my thoughts
her
chemise showing more than could be veiled
as
my senses were captured
imprisoned
in her smile
She
was freer
than
any wind I had ever felt
slipping
passing
my mind
like
curtains
possessed
by the wind
in
open windows
enlaced
memories.
3-21-94 Victor Harbor SA
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3. Where my kisses meet
my dreams
4. Pick a dream and stay
awake in it
I
was just a step from eternity
A-top
Tower Eiffel
When
I saw her enter Grand Palais
and
the choice no longer was clear
end
this life
Or
try to make it
With
the girl entering Grand Palais
We
got married
Had
some children
Got
divorced
She
sued me for everything
ran
off with the kids
the
yacht
Porsche
jewels
credit
cards...
and
my latest girl friends too
At
least I have something to analyze for eternity.
5-5-94
Victor Harbor South Australia
I
was selling picture-poems
alongside
Jackson Square
in
New Orleans
reading
astrology charts to the lovely ladies
(telling
each how well our charts matched: "my Mars to your Venus - what a night
we shall we have")
and
selling esoteric sacred secrets to the Christians when I
saw her standing there reading my picture-poems
She
said what my poems said shouldn't be said
she
came and told me that every day at noon
But
I paid no attention (like any man would)
Until
the day she took me to her home somewhere north
in
the constellation of Andromeda (the chained lady)
I
met her anthropomorphic parents
a
tree and a shirt
Then
I awoke twenty-years later
in
this small harbor town
on
a large island North of Antarctica
where
I began selling picture-poems (poems saying what shouldn't be said) in a park again
(come
and purchase your picture-poems at Rymill Park on Sundays in Adelaide that
aren't rainy or windy 9-5)
But
I watch for her like a criminal does for justice
knowing
someday it will all make sense
and
I will be like everyone else
free
of me.
4-17-94
Victor Harbor South Australia
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