MiPo Poetry Board Best of 2002

Lovemade,
while nothing touched

Love began with her want
with the poems he sent

Portrait of the Artist with Li Po,
Last Gods

released into her flower boat
he wanted love back

stars crawled along their spines
he became Disjecta Membra

inside her wet, bloomed
earth-gentled, pink as crocus

and they came that way
as if released from clouds

soft as rained on nights
language and fire verbs

he licked her softest parts
she sucked him, dreamed

her nipples pleasured
in his mouth like moons

Glitter and Magic

My heart wants to believe
in disordered spaces

that you fall from the toss of a stick
the forecast, the prophesy

of you and I together
me in your bed, you in mine

while stars glimmer and spangle
into the corners of our eyes

on our teeth, in dreams
on our tongues and in our hair

your face in my tea leaves
foreseeable as a shadow in sun

a blend: poetry with news

a man is dead
on Godfrey Avenue

I read
blessing the boats

someone sets a fire
the moon rises

over Lucille Clifton
this is how we know

stars attend autopsies
but in spite of that

a poem, brilliant blue
and a sorrowful song

the bomb squad
checks out hand grenades

the terror of slave ships
a heart; hand-carved wood

in Utah a child is missing
the search goes on

sweet jesus
this is a test

In the space of the distance

there are ghosts and poems
blue lights and a road

that bends like a frond toward
water, silence, fire or clouds

memories and histories
the granite age of the moon

odd hats, red doors and stars
as open as hearts or as closed

the jut of a fence, all the wings
of the quiet-sad birds, stone

twisted breath and purple light
coming and going between us

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