There is no warning rattle at the… nor heavy feet to stomp the foyer… Safe in the dark prison, I know t… light slides over the fingered work of a toothless

Pretty women wonder where my secre… I’m not cute or built to suit a fa… But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say,

She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of… She came home running

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleev… to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies. Mushlike memories perform

When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the stre… Young men sharp as mustard. See them. Men are always

Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone

Her arms semaphore fat triangles, Pudgy hands bunched on layered hip… Where bones idle under years of fa… And lima beans. Her jowls shiver in accusation

I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. Some declare their lives are lived

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing

Your smile, delicate rumor of peace. Deafening revolutions nestle in th… cleavage of your breasts

Your skin like dawn Mine like musk One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a

Beloveds, now we know that we know… Without notice, our dear love can… In the instant that Michael is go… Though we are many, each of us is… Only when we confess our confusion…

We were entwined in red rings Of blood and loneliness before The first snows fell Before muddy rivers seeded clouds Above a virgin forest, and