Category Archives: 1, poem, poetry,

IN CONVERSATION

IN CONVERSATION

we had
the greatest conversation ever

wild
but we did
not bang our
heads together

or slurred speech slide
one senseless mass
down onto the
frontroom floor

our intellects
alcohol stimulated
but then obliterated

and all
that wisdom
left to escape

be spoken elsewhere
or perhaps
   never again for
better or
for worse

or
utter calamity
of the human race

FABULOUS

FABULOUS

if you
are so fabulous

as wonderful
as you say

where
is the wonder?

where are
the fables?

where is the story
that is going to
change my landscape
shift my reality

grip me
grab me

for the rest
of my life?

I catch you sleeping
that very sight
transformative
beneath small, square-
shaped purple blanket

looking
Roman imperial, totally
submerged

and here I am outside
looking in
who knows what
impassable fence my
face pressed up against

who knows
what ultimate, legendary barrier

and on
that shrouded face
what dreams come
strong enough
to leave
some imprint, make
ground-breaking impression?

and so it is
between us
so much spoken
yet everything hidden

deep
beneath the choppy surface
of that text
true leviathans

denizens of the fabulous
most certain to appear

HIGH JUMPER

HIGH JUMPER

Alan
D

never heard you debate
before

never heard you
live before (well
almost)

stuck in your
chair
but
can jump through
the air
plucking out
conclusion
after conclusion

you should have
become a jumper
could have
become a real athlete
an utter
track star

why limit yourself to the law
to the blase life
of a Harvard professor?

when see you debate
I imagine a whole different
destiny

one where you don”t look
anything so ridiculous,
that totally bad.