From Beautiful Locks

For seven miles we hoofed it

Chasing after a good idea
The waters stopped searching
For the ocean and puddled
I poured myself a mule
A wounded mule wiped
From beautiful locks.

What I poured myself
For seven miles 
Charm on a dog

Sugar-lined streets 

And a good idea
Were eyes prettier
Then the look
Of a sandwich
Grabbed at the hardware 

And then home to the snake-bite

Or a quatrain on love
Amber waves a mantra

Clear as the bottom of a lake
Where you and I were 

Charged with swimming.

Like the Buddhist

Like the Buddhist

I do not believe 

in the afterlife

but on Sundays 

When the bells ring

 in the lonely town

 of Leverett

And there are

Those I know 

Burried nearby

I stop to hear

Not them

Not the dead

Though their names

Be in it

But rather

I would like to think

Our secret pond

That one time 

You and I went

A car ride

For Chinese food

Or our beautiful walk

For coffee and ice cream

The back and forth

Of me rocking you

And to the shorter softer

Pearls of sound of breath.

 

Dating the Days

Tell the shampoo girls 

That Sundays are best

For pumpkins

And the horse face boy 

Tuesday’s for thought

Monday’s monarch

Rests on a wave

Of noons moons

What days are left in

Leftovers Wednesday 

Wire and Thursday’s

Mote.  Fridays

Freelancing and 

Saturday’s note.

Speaking

 How one returns from heaven or honey 

It’s pains how sticky 

the farmer, driving his empty 

truck through the beautiful 

maples of spring, never gets to the telling 

of it. Especially as the sage sways

He never gets to the telling of it

Even the way you look up at me

Late in the evening right before sleep

With your eyes that I cannot read

In the gray blue essay of yours

knowing I do not stand a chance

In your ache

We cannot keep silent

We cannot keep silent.