Tuesday, June 17, 2014
city love
city air enveloped the midnight street
wrapped in sable stockings
beyond your feline waist
I cast my tongue into your quaint abyss again
at night
pigeons dance 'pon our soiled bedroom sill
deep urban shadows pounce through sacred windows
as neighborhood breezes subtly dance 'tween our bodies
this twentieth century mattress
rests silently
disembodied from its sheets
your heat
penetrated my psyche once again
as sultry evening foreshadowed
a seasons culminating humidity
in inertial premonition
lackluster in love
what love is
me cresting your auburn brow
'neath a ceiling fan's vigorous oscillation
refrigerator wednesdays outside
village popsicle vendors
air conditioned feelings
within your mother's embryonic vestibule
afternoon must gradually unfold
today toward placid evening
august will delicately transpire to september
city love must never dwindle
through our years
freshly renewing our minds within each other
while death continues slithering up
adjacent alleyways
slowly making its way to our city door
For Miss Mcmanus
Dear Miss Mcmanus:
After callously venturing through restless seasons of the world
you've alone embedded your name
upon the narrow landing of its crystalline mantle
in return
I've constructed an perpetual altar for you
upon the familiar throne of my heart
all I ask
is to gradually mount life's trivial staircase with you
your elemental eyes widened with fire, love & grace
how i long to belong somewhere between your legs
and your face
autumn winds will blow
long before the pine-trees know
their boughs to wither
in fallen winter snow
an ethereal Springtime
you are to me or
long forgotten solstice of summer
whence childhood dreams
painted a tranquil sheen
of pastel indigo
on our minds impressionable harbor
our love together
is beyond any vale I've ever traveled
more precious and delicate
than any prayer
mumbled fervently
in lone bedrooms of adolescence
angels drift beyond measure here
their words soft and amiable
whitened & velvet
clutching nighttime silhouettes
you
must be one of them
Your lover
Dan Pollock
After callously venturing through restless seasons of the world
you've alone embedded your name
upon the narrow landing of its crystalline mantle
in return
I've constructed an perpetual altar for you
upon the familiar throne of my heart
all I ask
is to gradually mount life's trivial staircase with you
your elemental eyes widened with fire, love & grace
how i long to belong somewhere between your legs
and your face
autumn winds will blow
long before the pine-trees know
their boughs to wither
in fallen winter snow
an ethereal Springtime
you are to me or
long forgotten solstice of summer
whence childhood dreams
painted a tranquil sheen
of pastel indigo
on our minds impressionable harbor
our love together
is beyond any vale I've ever traveled
more precious and delicate
than any prayer
mumbled fervently
in lone bedrooms of adolescence
angels drift beyond measure here
their words soft and amiable
whitened & velvet
clutching nighttime silhouettes
you
must be one of them
Your lover
Dan Pollock
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