WHEN IN FACT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THE RUB OF THE GHOST AT MIDNIGHT
I am threatened
at once by fog
desire & feel
have never
done anything
to a ghost
the modesty of
mybeing & immodesty
of mychoices
have never
done anything
to a ghost
not that I forget
that I remember
only flattery
have never
worried
there is no disciple
have not accosted
your little smile
that baby seed
of petulance
enveloped as it is
in the silk
your stomach
your intestines
& interest
yes you too
are a velvetpink
valuable & not
sofar from
the surface
of the skin
the cutis yes
largest organ
thatmuch is true
I can be
but often amnot
of the living
I drag & insist
I am ________
incapable of ________
please dontyoucover
I am only a mirror
of one dimension
however you
or the two of you
are gen tle
in reac tion
of bod y
to outer stim ulant
meaning skin thin ner
meaning thi ck skin
meaning yo u
are much more
a body than I
a bodythan I anticipated
Water
after I spill my guts to you
as if
when into the wind
your breath
comes back
as foreign
/ here again
little boy afraid
of anything / anywhere
pissing the bed
at kitchen noise
same boy
& whether
you know it or not
you love as he is / root of man
you know
who leaps from bedside
prowls nude / aroused
about the night house
ready to pounce
whatever whisper awakens
you / the man
barely humming
above a fifth /
the man
too scared to change
the lightbulb
here is a glass of water
here is a towel
