Author: admin

It would be so kind if love were merely blind.
Not seeing past my sweetheart’s mask
Would be a minor ax to grind.

don’t gape don’t
even glance
up again
to confirm
that jigsawed
off-kilter
swagger

I see you standing tall,
basking, together in the after-
glow of the ESPY Awards show

They sing, though,
only in the hours when silence
has become its own refrain.

A slice of mango is hope for street vendors
And perhaps that mango lassi sipped by the youth who drives
A rickshaw, is the cooler that makes one
Forget the stranglehold of yesteryear

Every day since you died,
I choose a card from the deck for you.
From the Major Arcana today the card is renewal.

we are huddled
together trying to see the flash
of an Amethyst Hummingbird
in the late sun.

—this morning I have forgotten
the names of trees, grasses, insects.
I call to the birds:
nature makes no response.

I kiss the sunset
and such magic falcons
such dreams unanswered

And what did you suppose would fail you? Toes?
Fingers, eyes, tongue?