AS CLOSELY AS I AM DOING NOW

AS CLOSELY AS
I AM. DOING NOW

how can I
become

a poem?

unless you observe me

but
how can I
know, feel,
                see

you observing me
unless
      you tell
me

best way to do this
is to figure it as metaphor
imagine
   we are
each other’s
               twin slit experiment

write me
a poem
       by way of return
that I might
embody

but how to
become a poem, your poem,
unless
     I observe you

you let
me observe you observing
me simultaneously

as closely as I can be said
to be in fact doing now

as closely as I am doing now

LEFT TO SAY


LEFT TO SAY

since she
is
   goddess,
divine

it would have to be
mortal Adonis
to make the sacrifice
to tell their story

get
  those beautiful,
painful words
upon the page

and there it was, their
love saga
     captured forever
magnificent creation

and there Adonis lying
finally in the arms of grieving          Aphrodite

mission accomplished, nothing
more for him left to achieve
nothing more
        left to say