July 2, 2018

Water Metaphor: A Love Poem


The river at its source
a small stream, one that is rapid and raging violent.
The Rocks near a river at its source - Jagged and sharp. Rocks spitting out from the center
of the earth. Rocks newly formed from the heat of the Interior rocks sediments shifted and thrown up as mountains all Jagged sharp edges.

The river is not always a mountain stream flowing with ferocity.
 Gravity pulls the river closer to the Center of the Earth the river water finds level.
The river water find its course.
And in that course he creates his own channel digs out the Rock and the soil.
 River became a thing in itself self-one that is itself affected and not one that crushes that around it it becomes its own being. The river has a name. The river has character River has soul.

And the rocks as you stand by its shore looking across its dark depths uncertain about how deep the river is not knowing if you could walk not wanting to take a chance and put your feet in this River. Stones line the shore.

And these stones that line the shore within the reeds within the mud from Where the River Ebbs and flows with the seasons.
The stones are flat round.
The stones have the sharp edges broken off.
The stones are worn and smooth.
Broad River and its channel – calm waters have more power than that seemingly chaotic Falls. The river clearly it's just a metaphor here for my love for you it is grown and matured and we're still a long way from the Delta.

Skin Suit: A Love Poem


Steel splits a hole clearing the skin on the top of the scalp
the crown of the skull
knife drags down Centerline.
cleaving skin growing old with age down the neck
over the back and down
to the cleft of the buttocks and around front.
dragging the knife up the belly;  peeling flesh from bone from organ.
Piles of new flesh falling to the ground.

Washing the blood from the skin making human leather tanning the hide.
What is now no longer me - a skin suit of me.  

It is a skin suit of me one that you can wear and that you do wear.
In your dark moments when you're alone you slide me on.
 You slide me on you look in the mirror and you say,
“Look at me I'm Edgar”.

and no other way is it possible to have melded together in such a way.
Dancing inside of me I have become just a skin suit that envelops you.
But in such a way the skin suit grows into your skin becoming your new skin.
Skin that you cannot take off that is us forever.