Friday

poem

back when the 
  devil could feel
rain
 the roads 
the fog
reptiles walk across
this bridge
before me
the nun 
sins



untitled
voices of the colored women
scream to shore
every eternal wound
every eternal morning
with the moaning moon
only to wake the wicked
children crying in the fields
fathers dying at war
falling into the oceans
grab him by his heart
and let the song sing on

Monday



dancing on the
   table top
     lightly

  the sun hits
my fingers

  and i finally
find the will

to  write
   again

isolated love 
just to make up
   for what

when  September's 
 rain is tall
                   er
                   than new york city

taken in by the sound of the
night


the black, the steady 
hum

    praying  on cigarettes and 
nights we can 
make love 
just to watch the moon 

cry