C↑UPID 

Young man, bending the bow, stretching logic,
starlight is not guiding light.
Plinging in the dark, people get hurt.
Watch out! Damn it!

Your missiles whistle merrily
but miss the mark and watch us bleed
punctured sleep and a lover cavity.
Holes in the head, Stabs in the back,
Sores and infections from miscalculating direction.
Wonder weapons have anointed aim,
errant arrows mispointed maim.
Shakespeared.

Young man, observe the grieving masses,
Sweet-tipped pleasure-plunge heart-darts
start cardiac attack on impact, not pains in asses.
Perhaps you need glasses and archery classes?



HEART

Exercise. 
strive thrive 
for the ellipse of calves 
and the power thighs, 
the seductress moon and the navel pie. 
cleavage mounds to shoulders high, 
torso taunt with sinewy statuesque pride.

but the most important muscle shies inside
  



idiot savant

Ka-boom! goes the heart quake.
There you are! did you hear the slams?
The aerobic heart banging the signal like a primitive ritual.
But the pounding flattens my confidence, silences my voice.
To be beaten up by your own blood-banger is troubling, confusing
-- can the thrust be trusted?

The heart’s an idiot savant playing music of the soul
while playing the fool. Feeling erupts like a severed artery;
songs try to control the flow until there’s a connection.
There’s feelings of love, feelings of hope, feelings of instability.
Gushing sensitivities wait and wade,
yearning turning over and over in waves.
A blessing and a curse,
feelings of separation, feelings of the worst,
feelings of seeing, feelings of not being,
feelings of believing, feelings of you leaving, heaving
…tangoed up by you, dancing with insanity




Believe

When the distractions stop
in a moment of calm
I think of you and I believe.
Despite all that’s been declared and denied
There’s a compass of feeling aimed at you.
I believe I can control actions and words
but the arrow still lingers
like a pulse of pleasure and longing.

believe in feelings.
believe they are messengers for unarrived awareness,
a half of life pointing to its unannounced mate.