DIAMOND
I write
thinly-veiled
stories of my life
play chess (badly)
to keep the forces of
light and dark
in synthesis, balance
look out at the stars
each a solar
nuclear furnace
and wonder
about gold and silver
dark energy, anti-
matter
about silicon
and carbon
which you are, as
my lifeform, such
long-standing
Muse
from a
distant galaxy
asking me
to cross fifty light years to
come visit
carbon compound
you are
compressed
to diamond
ROOM
stet
Heraclitus you are wrong
this man
cannot step
into that bed
river mibd a river
back up a bit
let’s forget media res
simply
start at
the beginning
virtual particles abounding
no hope of
even one
actually actualizing
promise of this moment
never to be realized
come and gone
so many wave fronts
from bed to couch and
back again
washing over me
you
by now
sleeping serenely
me maybe
astral travelling
as far as I can tell
room to
expand, manoeuvre
room
for doubt
here we
make love, don’t
make love
roll two lovely snake eyes
so you may guess
which
forked path
possibilities, probablities,
green light
for go, red
for full stop
in this little ecosystem, tiny
echochamber things
horribly resonant
yes
roll those bones
roll
with
the flow
tick the will
they won’t they
take what’s
in the box
you know
whose doomed cat
is waiting
in that box
the whole nature of
connection, entanglement
now
premised on our moment
and what other, kinder worlds
have decided for themselves
have themselves
found out
let them
film the morning after
still through a lens
of blessed
enchantment
Pan panning with magical
camera across
the mystical space
that will
always
be
her bedroom
for the record (record of
flautist playing
the firsf
time I ever saw
her face)
nothing
to see here
WONDER
I wonder how it is
more stars shoe
when we
make love
and how it is
I know
they
are there
get to notice them
loving you
focussing
on you
both
inside and
out
to
the depth of
my abilities.
IN CONVERSATION
In a parallel universe
that Adonis and Aphrodite
ruptured
the myth
with joy of together
went to the ballet, caroused talked life and poetry
over lamb souvlaki and
red wine
at a beachfront taverns
talked love and the
art of making it
stretch out
beyond infinity
until the early hours
can tell you now
given the
nature
of their divinity
this just has to be
the greatest conversation
on the
nature of love
spoken, whispered,
since the beginning of time.
REVISED
saw Adonis and Aphrodite
at the Heavy Metal ballet
watching barriers collapse
boundaries stretch
saw sheet metal fluted
rolled exquisitely sheer
the weight of those chords tempered with
grace, fluency
of style
and Adonis and Aphrodite
if not riveted in love
at least
holding hands
the truth of their narrative
so handsomely revised
the
years so softly silvering them,
their conquest of time
VAULT
opened the vault
hadn’t looked that
deep inside
for a very
long time
found your
photograph back there
brought all that
loss, sadness
to my eyes
and you
standing behind me
so passed it to you
you
looked sighed
kissed me softly
on the temple
on the lips
this the place
where all roads meet
all secrets
revealed
so close it must seem
to the end of time
DRIVING DOWN TO CAPE TOWN
driving down
to Cape Town to
honour your invitation
need to fill my veins
with the fuel
of liquid stoicism
fifty years since
we last laid eyes
on each other
fear a
single touch from you
and I might disintegrate
recalling that moment
where in your bedroom
I declined
the sharing of the bed
and whatever
consequent pleasure
thinking this meaning so
much less
so much less
for you
and now
me heading South
realizing
in light of
this current sweet
invitation
how hopelessly wrong
I must have been
poems 2 die for