i dream of you kiss
i rumble for the moment
i carve statues out of the chalk
and pebbles of a mean hopscotch
i am wondering how long
it would take me to train
a black bird to steal you heart
and how much crap i would have
to feed him
i think of you kiss in my class
and drift into the joy
i lose myself in that celebration
i am warmed by the heat
for a moment i am next to you on the beach
and i want to take a nap with your cheek
against my bicep
let me get lost in your nature
to be a blue bird in my house
outside your dancehall
sticking my head through
looking for comfort
that dress you had on looked silky
black with flowers
i am a bee coming at you like
a black hawk
fluttering at your stigma
i long for your lips
like slumber that
whispers in the night
i am burning like paper candles
like pumpkin in the compost
like the worms that
cut through my family tree
i am porous for your kiss
like the soil soaks up
a ten minute thunderstorm
i am sponge bob with a glass of scotch
and all the combinations of thoughts
that lead me to the river of joy
i am ice cubes in that glass of scotch
that ate the inhibitions that swallowed
the bee that flirted with your petals
i clamor for poetry that rambles
from brown alcohol, that spins on a bet
and is dizzy with raunchy delight
every time you cross your legs
on the porch where the sun dazzles
i am undone like the threads of story
about a nudist camp
i am all the alphabet minus the x
that lives on the tip of your tongue
and smirks in your cheek
i am slack and lust
i am pretense, without a nickel to my name
i ramble into an unconscious thought
brought on by the slumber
that circles the wagons around your mouth
and dirty moneys down your cheek
i am the synonym of dream
with allusions to sin
when caught in the collusion of wishes
about wings and your lips against mine
i am up too late working on a poem
that declares a new religion and
pays homage to your kiss
when i should be sleeping
i am waiting for you to cook for me again
i am waiting for you to fall down to me
i am hidden desire inside nocturnal fantasy
i am everything and nothing
three x's and one more on the agenda
a consensus of lips and a over-ride
of innuendo
i am a memory of you in the town hall
kissing in the enclave of a door that is locked
and men in dresses dancing to music
from the tropics on a sub-zero night
where i am a flame in your embrace
i am a moth with no self-control
i am a dream, waiting to happen
and there it is in your kiss
there is paradise in the dream
there is a future and there is a past
there is a random chance to meet you
in the middle
and there is what goes beyond my thoughts
that only you can hold
I have been reading poetry, especially love poetry, for just over thirty-four years. This is one of the most exquisite and important love poems I have ever read.
Starward