SMORGASBORD
we were
cooking together
hot
at work
in the kitchen frying,
grilling blanching, searing,
working to bring
out the transformative
best of every ingredient
making magic
performing alchemy
and then in the afterglow
of taking everything
to super
high temperatures
harvest of all our efforts
much food there for
us to crazily enjoy
dishing up
a breakfast buffet to
reward out efforts
nothing less in the savoring
than a full smorgasbord
SO THERE
so there
are your coiled up
dimensions
and these are the big
space time ones
in plain sight
ones
For the light
and our delight in
that they are
the cutting
edge of power
the very
fabric
of beauty
but so many
dimensions
within dimensions
will take me a
lifetime
to discover
many more
to explore
GOODNIGHT MOVES
a game
of structure
and sequence, could
not be more linear
but everymove
of yours
ends up
in checkmate
those knights
working hand in glove
with their
Queen;
Lancelot-Guinevere
complicity in everything
L there
not for
“love”
certainly not
for “learner”
and me
with the foresight
of a pawn
watching front,
back and centre
overlooking
the diagonals
outflanked, double
enveloped
shanked
in the rear
your game a brutal
thing of beauty
seemingly all
of the cuff but
some inner mathematics
lies at
the heart of
such execution tapidly realised
planning (you
could figure
it out
naked
could play it blindfold)
and me
back in my box
my crypt of a crib
such great
goodnight that’s all
see you
in another life moves
hit
queenside, kingside, by
file, by rank
mastermind mistress
at the heart
of everything
pulling all the strings
dominating ftom
the centre (and
oh
what
a centre!)
every opening in
the book
sheer innuendo!
what
ecstasy to
one day
win
when every
loss such a pleasure.
SUREFIRE DEFENCE
I must thank you
for teaching me chess
as I said, as
I told you i know
nothing about the game
have
never played
chess before
and so we played the
strip version
where every piece
I lost
I had to divest
myself, forfeit
some or other
item
of clothing
and so it was
you swept across the board
gobbling up my pawns
and devouring all
my larger pieces
until I was mated, naked
as a baby
long into the night
those victory celebrations
you not notcing
my bishops on
same colour diagonal
missing every
Knight fork, every
en passant
but
a bit of
a conflict of interest here
working on my own
and your own
grandmaster ratings
someday I must
teach you every
gambit
in the book;
every surefire defence
CLOCKWISE
I had my house cleaned
got my
clock cleaned
every follicle
of my body
washed and dried
dried and waahed
painstakingly
until it all paid off
and me
shining
like a new pin
all my brass
parts buffed
so
pleased with the service
what a big tip
I did give.
AT THE HOUSE
OF COCO CHANEL
sorry
I ate all
your makeup
some tasted
caramel
some had a chocolate
flavour
most was just
generic pink
felt like
winning the lottery
and blowing it all
at the candy store
even ate the blue
leather bag everthing came in
a cross
between the taste of
blueberries and
the taste of
cow
but hey, now,
take a peep at my insides
and you might think
you are at a
disco
at the Moulin Rouge
with Miranda wears Prada
at the house
of Lagerfeld or
Coco Chanel
ON YOUR BIRTHDAY
come to me
on your birthday
Gemini girl
I shall make you
my eternal celebrity
teach you the meaning
of the word “celebration”
make sure you
feel every vowel
every consonant
in your heart
and
every other part
doing your native sign
of the twin me Castor
you Pollux
from dawn on the day
to dawn the next morning
SIGN
I want to take you
on a bed
of wine coloured
roses
my lips wanting your
brown skin
beneath them
for all of
human time
and though
I have not yet
found you
and still have
to persuade you
to commit
to this enterprise
an enterprise in which
we die and die and die
forever and ever
constantly rising
constantly reborn
for which the shade of deep burgundy of
these flowers
has become
of
this desire and
would be passion
its
eloquent sign.
NIBBLE
nibble
nibble
nibble
cit the wrong wire
armed the system
the count down
going
crazy
we both doomed
whatever explosion
between us
whatever
volcano
about to
erupt
magma
upon magma
superhot caldera
no hope for us now
started with a nibble
a single, fatal
total nibble
here is a desire
unleashed
devourimg
everything in its path
poems 2 die for