Torrent

Torrent
feet of hurried rain
still and leaden gray

I am waiting
deep
within you
sojourn of autumn gold
rhythm of blue

Quiet bank
of soft green
stolen words
the meadow has aged

Spinning light inside
and above
a day-old mirror
the sky has aged

Ice
spreading silent
in folded hands
layer and layer
unyielding to the
fire

I am within you
a shadowy
voice
searching, pacing
touch the face
scorn the name

Ageless

Vanity

Vanity
strokes his hand and sighs
of nothing
attrition of the mind

my temporal mind
and loving
she loses him in the
night

Vanity
beside the stone seated chapel
waits in watching
the water garden pond
how deep

and deep her eyes
cold and black
an autumn day
and water

Vanity
my self-alone temptress
watching, a cow-eyed boy
of ash and wood
crying

outward man
rise in smoky stillness
His love is bony hands
cold and clean the fingers
crack and yawning space
between

Vanity
too late, unknown

Vanity
a man slanted
shirtless in the afterglow
writing love songs
to J. Alfred Prufrock

and sighing vanity

Sihouettes

Now for some new poems, in honor of Autumn.

Silhouettes
of wheels on cars
broken, spinning out of place
blue green blue
a stuffed shirt
collar pressed and pinned
like a folded napkin
polished white washed
nothing, nothing
My God

sic

The cart-wheel girl
sits and paints the streets
in fragmented letters
her lawn is green
swept with broken-combed diligence
she falls back
she fell back and found the taste
stale
must dark corners
linen on the ground
stand, speak
in a voice of many asterisks
My jump was better

sic

Two folds and star-eyed
smoke in the doorway
with salt and sin
thinly sliced marionette
a turn or two between
twenty minute intervals
bites her lip
a subtle shift
turn left or right
turn into a gentleman,
a few scenes before
her eyes closed
My love, my sweet, my virgin queen

sic sic sic
His hands can turn and break
claw, grasping idly
fix the tie, spin the wheel

sic

Running, Running
My soul

sic

the nine tailed cat
in a beast with two backs
breaking, breaking

sic

Salvation
My soul

sic sic sic

the loose and folded page