Dear Miss Mcmanus:
After callously venturing through restless seasons of the world
you've alone embedded your name
upon the narrow landing of its crystalline mantle
in return
I've constructed an perpetual altar for you
upon the familiar throne of my heart
all I ask
is to gradually mount life's trivial staircase with you
your elemental eyes widened with fire, love & grace
how i long to belong somewhere between your legs
and your face
autumn winds will blow
long before the pine-trees know
their boughs to wither
in fallen winter snow
an ethereal Springtime
you are to me or
long forgotten solstice of summer
whence childhood dreams
painted a tranquil sheen
of pastel indigo
on our minds impressionable harbor
our love together
is beyond any vale I've ever traveled
more precious and delicate
than any prayer
mumbled fervently
in lone bedrooms of adolescence
angels drift beyond measure here
their words soft and amiable
whitened & velvet
clutching nighttime silhouettes
you
must be one of them
Your lover
Dan Pollock
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
love don't reside 'round here
Mid June miasmas envelope the outskirt town
subtly penetrating ones memory
urban streets deftly wrung out
like blanched century old washcloths
as I turn up King from 2nd Street
peripheral junkies cower atop
twilit neighborhood door stoops
post evening shadows
project then descend
til dawn's routine annunciation
disembodied natives
anticipate local rain tonight
fallen from rusted havens
of junkyard delectation
cemetery photography
taken aside cryptic mausoleums
of millennium old archangels
spun out on methamphetamine
jump starting eldorados
down soylent morning streets
of degenerated desolation
I had a lover
she arrived somewhere between
March's deafening ides
and Junes platonic struggle
soon to be misplaced
perpetually forgotten
within spring's infertile hearth
A fiery bond forever broken
once soldered firmly in steel, lust and wire
mechanically loosened through
previous weeks spent
fucking with the odometer
yea
I've seen her countenance change
shackled to love's fatigue prone radiator
a gas stove turned on high
in the back kitchen with
god on the back-burner
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