Erotic erótisi (not)
He asked what my poetry would be like
If it were more pornographic
Pornographus is Greek for
Writing about prostitutes
Not prostitutes writing
That would get blood on the bone
He asked what my poetry would be like
If it were more pornographic
As a substitute for using his imagination
I should grow feathers
Trip the light fantastic
Something that fits on a phone
He asked what my poetry would be like
If it were more pornographic
Perhaps because he is a photographer
He doesn’t know it is bad form
To ask a poet to merely entertain
Cue the Greek prostitute chorus moan
ερώτηση or erótisi is the Greek term for question, inquiry, or query
The Essayist
You are the punctuation
Of my body
Precisely delineating
Existence with your
Sensual grammatica
Your hands parenthetical
Around my hips
Your tongue is the
Comma of my most
Secret places
Each kiss closes
Periods on my lips
Full stops to my breath
While my heart
Hammers an endless ellipse
You trace my tattoo
With question marks
My back arches
Its own in response
Slow and curving
Enough of that
I brace the surprise
Exclamation point
Thrust into our
Conversation
Your thumb traces
Half a semi colon
I am the other half
You pause
Full colon
May I quote
Hyphenate my tongue
Between the brackets
Your exclamation
A run on sentence oh cannot stop now
ends with ee cummings
Gargoyle
There is a gargoyle in the tree beyond
Perhaps it is the Queen of the crows
They gather here in every other branch
Leaving room to honour that royal space
There is a gargoyle in the tree beyond
Gnarled and ancient it sits
I wonder what it thinks
Watching the encroaching “development”
There is a gargoyle in the tree beyond
At night it absorbs the moonlight
Part of life’s tree and yet withdrawn
Crouching dark and silent
There is a gargoyle in the tree beyond
It is the mystery of the place
Cut it down and you will know
What it is to lose eternity
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