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Three Poems, November 2005

A Book and a Woman

Death

Old age

aside,

Nothing is more humbling

than a book

or a woman.

A beautiful woman.

Privacy

In real country

trees offer privacy.

In the city

people, like trees

provide privacy.

Unlike people,

trees do not often frown or

become angry.

Nor are they

too serious.

Happy Syllables

Your eyes stealthily sneak

into my head

into my senses

And steal notions

images

and all the happy syllables

you stashed in them.

Your eyes spy

on my sleep

seduce it

snatch it.

How gracious of you!

You only leave me

sentences to sound

thoughts to feed on

In the seasons of silence and solitude.

Your Dreams

I owe it to your dreams,

to your notion

of the past

that I have surpassed

the past

And now reside

in the future

With your dreams,

your notion of time

And my fears.

 

Love

Always weak

    and naive

But doesn't die

Cannot die

Unlike you

Unlike me

Am I

    jealous?

 

Teach me

how to think

of you

how to dream

of you

perhaps living

in my mind

being on my mind

in my sleep

you can love

me

I can love

you

and go to sleep.