I sat and the woman joined me On the wintry steel settee. Soon we rose silently to the window And leaned out on the cold window sill. Every wall was damp depraved and dead; Damp depraved and dead they were! Itโ€s hibernation time for man; Time and again there was a madrigal From the youth [...]
Tag Archives | Fear
Blood river train
When time works against us and weighs at the heart somewhere in a foreign land, night turns to day, and the fashion in shop windows I pass on my way from work into djellabas, the smell of restaurants into kuskus on a market day, hands all out, stretched to acknowledge this gift, walking in the [...]
jealousy
a jealousy green as winter grass grows succulent, lush, and whole on the long dead, barren rolling hills,, of my aching, envious, soul…. i watch you live,, your chalice full as in emptiness i am bound crackled leaf and bitter root the thistles,, with which i am crowned desires incalescence, like fever burns yet yields, [...]
Our Men In Iraq
Our men in Iraq I never was a soldier, I know not his plight to be. I never slept in a tent Or upon the ground, because I was a Navy man And sailed the mighty sea. Our mode of living Quite different. We did not sleep Upon the deck Our sacks were Stacked quite [...]
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