Memorium Spacebat

Zippity zappity
Spacebat of Discovery
Wounded and clinging to
avoid a fall.

So romantically this
Free-tail-Chiroptera
Heroic'lly rises and
Exceeds us all.

Ahab

She's on the phone voice tear stained and its one-am
I pull myself my dreams and my sheets to the floor
And this time
I can smell it on the air as I dress to hunt in black and she
See rough dark jeans to unbuckle and drop
See cheap logos shirt to grasp and pull
And leather jacket to press against her closeness

My armory is full
Naruda, Laux, Shakespeare,
And nameless Egyptian number twenty three
Cummings is unexpected so I bring him whispering
Since feeling is first
She who ever questions my intent
Will never wholly love

I am unstoppable
I cross my lawn
Cross the city cross her doorstep cross the threshold
But I will never reach her

I cannot cross time filled with
Bodies and beds and books on tables
Hopeful dreaming heads
Downed with a light brown hair
And my eyes staring out over empty
Nights burning in nihilistics

Tonight she is drowning
Looking to be saved
And I am on my way
With the harpoon she armed me with

One

Sing to me Homer
Of a cave at the dawn of the ocean primordial
Both empty and full
Speak to me waves,
Rhythm of piano voices and trumpeting sighs
Delivered the aphros of gestures
Whisper to me truth and plenty
Spaces open unempty
Resonance and wisdom
And please do it before Virgil arrives

With his legion romantic
That once I feared and perhaps still do
Feet beating in dance
Setting out to other lands
Claiming the hearts minds and its own
“We have come to save you!” they cheer
Besting circumstantial hordes
Virgil’s romantics shaping, holding, then leaving
All essential untouched
They know romantic they have become
They know those parts which are
And the epics echo within
Sea cave at the beginning of time
Hearts across the world

Achilles

I dreamt so long of you last night
Goodbyes and I passed by still in the dark
And you stood by tall and strong
With hands spread out wide to block the moon
And my stomach turned stone at a touch
At the sight of the line of your mouth
And at the warm breath clouding memories
Of unfaded youth and clarity

Time and you spoke with
Bells sundered clappers and coffee scented rooms
Solo drive ins with dark roads and with darker homes
And within hopes that recollect times
Warm and free of doubt
Warm and filled with summer breezes
Warm and eyes that freed of words of unsetting sons

Last nights dream, I and said of you
Too much
And I prayed for cloaking rain and
More then once you told me you
Did not regret

Did not regret a thing
Not even that a heart grown cold enough
It could only explain by walking away

Sapped

When he danced it was all that we knew of rhythm
Cycling like rings and worlds too slow turning and I
I fell raining expressed as instinct and nature
No need for me to fret that my future may land
So thirsty deep with roots shallow water eyes
Soft as romance and how he could make me cry

But now I stand barren on sand fields and those
Eyes strain and lips purse with efforts uncontained
Not remembering songs of soft skin no longer now
Dried red cracked sun abused
Coming as memories
Blowning back against
My cheeks stained looking out

I told him once that forever is too long for soft things
like promises
and people
and healing
and love

Askance

There is a song in me and I
Believe in words drawn deep
And words that last as
Shuffling feet ragged breaths
Head set soft upon my back
Asking for me to sing just a little more.

Mary

With silence whispered
Too great for ears with
Red fading from pursed lips and
Skin white and so painfully smooth.
A miracle of cheeks
Of wind and tensed moments
Of hearts and
Still with eyes down cast and
Words forming tears of blood.