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