Friday, February 22, 2013

valerie's violet morning apparel

                       Valerie's violet morning apparel,
                               silken nightgown and sable camisole folded
                                  neatly upon antique dresser-drawers of
                                         velour curtained bedroom upholstery.
                                             Brass-studded chambers of dawn's illustrious fornication,
                  "If you lie to me tonight, lover, it will be cuz I asked you to"
                                supple frame and rose-smitten cheeks flushed to
                                            incarnate hues of pallid complexion.
                       Sullenly reposed upon a gilded antique love-seat beneath
                                 marmoreal pillars of an olde colonial sun-room
                                bright rays of golden sun illuminate afternoon shadows
                            along wool damasked counters of opaque varnish.
                 Tranquil rays of warm iridescence dally gently into Victorian windows
                          of eighth-story colonnades,
                              below a towering browned arcade of weathered architecture,
                               off shallow eastern shorelines
                               luminous cycles of evening commenced
                         sudden gales of rain to sweep in from the north
                            onto our vast Atlantic seaboard.
                   there is hope for us, enduring frigid tempests of inhumane meteorology, sacrificing tell-tale legacies for drunken midnight promenades homeward
                           sidling up early April pavements, to dingy upstairs catacombs
                                 lit by candlelight one Thursday night
                                    lighting cigarette filters and chucking 'em
                                        out your attic window onto
                                             gritty neighborhood streets
                                                 you and your sisters clothes
                                                    me, I don't need a rosary
                                                      I got nothing
                                                         in my head
                                                             that's mine
       
                             
                        You and I, commiserating by residential mantels: whilst
                             prudently nurturing embryonic tombs of daffodils plucked on high deserted plains, springing enchanted seasons into sulfuric vistas of arboreal phosphorescence, bucolic burials between dusk's scythe-like cusp in nineteenth-century penitence. An epileptic fog has been lifted. Ascended, reversed, and transcended:
                                shimmering white sheathes of
                               hypnotic gardens below moonlit eclipses of emerald effluent .
                     Blue-lemon moon and red-yellow sun spread infernal shadows windward
                       down county freeways of broken photography as
                  suburban anecdotes resound avuncularly in
                                    local barroom vernacular
                                        years ago
                        auburn boughs enveloped our teenage courtyard
                    we frolicked lucidly around prime-time perimeters,
                       skinning our shins and feebly falling down
                                inevitable rabbit holes of young adulthood
                           On the weekends, we'd lift our sunday prayers to callous pastimes of weekday futility,
                                  It is the evening of our lives
                                 perishing  upon earthly chambers of carnal adaptations,
                                     lastly you my love can't hear the
                                           peal of god's perpetual bell thrust
                                                  through my chest imploding and
                                                             destroying what I called my love
                                                                  and my life of
                                                                     course
                 

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