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Uniform shirts,Patched up khakis,Twenty pounds overweight;I was so embarrassed. My head ran wild.Pi times radius squared,Food chain,Whale tail. God was always thereWatching everything. I played sick onceSo I could use the computer alone. I remember the keystrokes–None too incriminating–“webcam”, “girl”, “beautiful".Enough to get there. But the word haunted me–Beautiful. So I spoke it; I thought …

Dark’s Regress

Other beds my dreaming feet Have known too well. The blush of other lips and cheeks, While eyes appeared serene with sleep, My seeming digits have caressed-- And so my ghostly hands have known Their ghostly breasts (A foreign or familiar form In foreign space undressed). My form, as well as I may guess, Entwined …

An Explanation

Men, with wily tongues, confess, In guilt and quick response, To love, whose name alone may be Recalled and preyed upon. These men to women’s ears recite The lines they’ve memorized. To bring by them their minds’ intent, And in her form contrive. And she, beguiled, may then believe Herself the one beloved, And wait …

On Love

A concept, a feeling, an action, a being, A song, a breath, a dissonant symphony, A clanging gong or a banging symbol, Like the sea in a storm, in a tickling ripple-- Hearts and souls, tongues and fingers, Blood and sex and pain that lingers; Heaven, Hell, God, and me, All written like a tragedy. …