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Poetry

Although it has been justly said that poetry, alas, is dead,

I cannot help but toss another marble violet on the grave,

and think that words arranged precisely on the page

will save those prayers whose crystal splinters

were hidden among the ruined frost

in a world in which we thought all harmony was lost.

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On the Way

You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat, Unclench your floodgates, you are too much for me. — Whitman

One has to taste this life in order to leave it behind; 

The sage who knows no touch, knows something, but not enough.

He may know alot about the universe

but not enough about this world 

that made this life of ours, whatever force 

within its working worked the strange magic of our being 

with its absurd urge for meaning

in a world full of seeming.

To say that wine has no taste at all foregoes experience — 

the wine of Khayyam, a million years after the Fall 

from an original Nothingness (or Infinity) —

and foregoes all those things that came after Nothing (or Infinity)

in the waves of bronze and iron 

in the currents of Babylon,

from the Euphrates to the Seine

the endless stretch of years 

and all those moments of love

lying in the grass

with the person we love

and the sky above





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Ars Poetica





I see her  

staring out to sea

her coal black eyes

her silhouette

tall, slim

Mexican

of glistening hair

ravens are no darker than

down smooth shoulders

shirt frayed at

the waist

slim hips drifting

like fine sand into the

clear hour of my glass

a clear, salted glass

of a Margarita

the stuff of

tequila

dreams

or so to

the tourist

through 

dark lenses

 it        seems.





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The Goddess Sarasvati, Eastern Tibet, Kham region, 18th century. Source/Photographer. (From Wikimedia Commons, clipped and coloured by RYC)

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To His Coy Mathematician 

Lured by a world of forms —

the circle of the breast, the straight line of the calf,

what would be the point of discussing any tangent

that didn’t curve back to a union of body and mind?

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Only Connect

 For the monk, alone in his cell,

it's the erotic versus the spiritual, eros vs. agape

la via sinistra non è destra

not on Earth as it is in Heaven

give unto God that which is everything

because he's celibate, cellular

and those circuits in his head don't connect.

Whatever greater forces may or may not be at work

in this inexplicable cosmos of our,

our experience is a function of neurons connected to neurons,

through massive junctions;

our being jumps from cell to cell

a million neurons deep, running in thick circuits,

fields, planes, waves, loops, whatever they end up being,

they only connect, or they don't.

They only connect to everything you are,

to everything you think

about God and the contour of a breast,

a soft cunt or a hard cock,

and to everything you feel

about love and your tongue along her thigh,  

or they don't.

So when they talk about how bitter that apple was

you turn around and wonder,

Did you miss something — or did they?

When all the abstract truths end up in doubt

you conclude that Keats may be right:

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," —

That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know,

and then you wonder

what the fuss was all about.

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Whirlpool Cosmogony 

In the beginning was a whirlpool.

Jets flung far across the bubbled deep,

fishes forgot their names,

and fished about in a swimming sleep.

A mestiza beauty stepped into the pool

currents swished around ankles

chlorine bleached skin to porcelain. 

Bored, the goddess stretched her languid foot

into the currents of Time

the web of Maya, the mirage of sense

swirling through invisible toes.

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