Breathing

(excerpt from "how to breathe"...10/05)
Can't catch me while I fall,
cuz I'm praying for the ground to swallow me whole
and leave me splintered in a field
of miscommunication and wild frustration-
a score we never really settled,
now it's lost in the underbrush of trampled
wishes and dreams and maybe-to-bes
that strike their own match, waitin to be consumed
by a fire that knows no passion, only rage,
and a sad, sad, lonely little song
of what might have been....

(A reply, four years down the line)
 
Percival shies, doe-brown eyes
the answer to heart's delight
a brazen heat that flushes, brushes
and coos. Guttural, resonant, swaying
laughter-showers incalescent.

Questioning between shadows
ink-dripped longings,
achings, soothed: past ego bruise.
No scars- they've healed
a shining silver in gleamings of
lover smiles and whiskey eyes.

 
Tender, tenacious, tenuous.

Aspiration found in dew-dreams,

underwater scenes that swirl, fashion, forge

in frames slow- opaline clairvoyance.

No defining this romance-
gestalt blossomed, blooming, budling...
comic brilliance, lithesome dance slightly off rhythm,
tender through it's core:
roots deep in earth-urge sighs.