SLOWLY
D Press
Ellensburg 1989
Cover art by the author
SLOWLY
for Marcie
Can we stay in orbit
without spinning out?
Can we touch
without getting a rash?
Lasagna and yogurt
baked together.
.
Are you crazy?
I love you.
You love everyone.
There's only one you.
You're crazy.
.
Slowly, at a snail's gallop, we move
between the ocean and the moon.
You'd think we were kissproof.
.
Living in the æther,
one another in the the other,
we're hiding from the void outside.
.
You're in your tower,
addled on Freud.
I hear the celestial choir
and beyond.
.
I'm going west.
Let's meet in the east.
.
New York's only the twelth
most expensive place to live.
I'll get some special shoes
to live in when it's cold
I feel you close,
continuous, and on both sides.
I love you, I say.
Thank you, you say.
I'd have you stay,
but you ride away.
Why does the light dissolve
after we've parted?
.
You're the breath of "the"
in Do The Right Thing.
You can swim more laps
than a black she-devil.
You can swim more laps
than I can write poems.
Let's melt with longer laps,
stronger strokes
.
Riddled by love,
shot full of shafts,
I fly through the roof
into a night of stars.
Stay—like a star
until dawn.
Turn,
but return.
