Discounted Poetry

  You remember Honeysuckle kisses in the naughty breezes. Quite romantic, Taking chances on your love, But odds can wink and odds can flee. Your money flew on the pile. The queen was not inside your draw. You spent the evening Staring at the empty table, Drinking bourbon till your words were swimming, Tangled in the strings and strains of nectar dew. - 8/10/26

You are an ample cloud on earth. I walk through you, But my fingers Hungry Foolish Find a humid emptiness. Today, Your flooding eyes I swam around. I stole below And felt your heavy misty presence Even in the unreliable and shifting Tides. You're space that's lacking mass. I cannot grasp, But gravity defiant Jars my anchored thoughts And hauls me up and over To your atomized embrace. - 8/6/26

Everybody's girlfriend wants me, I A strange and shiny charm, A question mark in grey, A raft unmanned Adrift. - 8/5/26

She's a slightly plumper Young Scarlett Johansson. She inquires about my hidden desires. She is loving Running hands throughout my hair And recommending a conditioner treatment. My every friend would be in love. She isn't right for me. The humid breezes blew me wild, Tangled me in other wires. I burst in autumn, Rocket through the winter, But I'm always alone in September. - 8/4/26

The air is still. I smell your powder As you sit on top the swing, Your skin the moon, Your face brushed soft By edges of the light Above the parking lot. You open like a hope chest. Secrets pass unfolded, Delicate. I read them hungry Though with care. Inside this quiet night, I memorize you. And I know for you It isn't love. I know you need An intimate release, A safe transfer of documents, A nearness. I absorb you And your lunar pale, Although I know I do not hold you, Don't really touch you at all. 8/3/26

You pour in, Fill me, A strong and smoky swallow Warming, nearly glowing. You stir the mundane world And lighten me. This brewed so long, Forever. I sip Seeing flashes Joyful I believed far past. - 7/27/26