
Wow. I loved him
I, early to bed, early loved him—the tide rises, makes mountain, he never notices. The man cranky, horny and strong. Strung to the backs of fingers, content to lie (Early to bed, early drumming on green wood) Slow to rise, makes a secret cache sunny, runny and
"Jaan!"
There's nothing to it: furl the flag, curl a little change, remainder a hint of chorus and run to the street for civic pride.
Attention, an edged white heat; a bearing down like all universal music will come. Mighty visions of sweaty incremental meatings burst, (or seep, sometimes) unto the nations from the place between the cities, the Outer Periphery. Captive to their young, they shall sing it in their veins, captive to their echo, they touched the rim of hopes.
Unless the skulls of our faithful will ring, ripened and unknowable. Each of the faithful glitter, angular skins, we sloped toward each other. Denied the white lowcutting of the other, the sweet filled youth in their blouses.
He came upon a dread of hope, the reshaped spires of red light.
I couldn’t listen anymore, instead turned my attention down the street, down my legs, down into the city. They trudge the marketplaces. Stand, finally, baby-birdlike from the many breathless houses upon the streets, and all the ridiculous blues and bright patterns and fumes of them: the stars, passing jets in fearless murmery, lounged and wet upon the wet bedspread of sunrise.
“At last!”
She whirled with her angular mass of arms and elbows and mouths. We hesitated, ached to bound down the tumbled stairs, scream and roll into each other, echoes of breaths upon the brown brown stones.
Their carts, each filled at the hour when they can drift smokelike until- but my thoughts went unfinished in her interruption!
Starlight: wooded streets, ill-leveled roads of the city, sweat and sweetness and in our nostrils, fleshy chaos.
"It was," she said, “The hidden children in my cupboard. The stars that slowly danced into the cobbled streets.”
The signs at the edge of town stood on alone and I could count the luxury of silence beneath the stars.
“Haze rose, gave off the scent of sun-warmed stone barns, the orange, much-desired sound of slow breaths and sweet grass.”
I tuned to her at her pull of her gilded voice.
“I watched the processional, then,” She maintained. “To record the dirt-packed ground, the musicless streetmen.”
With every small gesture she allows me a picture, a corona of her midday madness.
” She with sweet meats and perfumes, multicolored heads bent in the odor of the autumn. The smell always happened with the fall-- where our others were looking away from the flood of gore, the openings of her face."
She never wandered off singing of me. The other fires supply their voice. I consume the vision of her backside, replayed and ricocheted, until it left the longed for wares under our relentless moon.