Poems and Snippets
“…she has saved me
from everything that is
not here.”
—Charles Bukowski, “the 6 foot goddess”, Love is a Dog From Hell
“...we know God is dead, they’ve told us, but listening to you I wasn’t sure.”
“If in the next life
we could see
such a moon—
no one would cling
to this one.”
—Saigyo, no. 13, Blossom Awakening
“Even if you feel
that someone dead
is still alive—
know that this world
is but a sleeping dream.”
—Saigyo, no. 94, Blossom Awakening
“As we had all been flesh together,
now we were mist.
As we had been before objects with shadows,
now we were substance without form, like evaporated chemicals…”
—Louise Glück, “An Adventure”, Faithful and Virtuos Night
I search for gowns to match your eyes,
to match your stance, your smile,
the color surrounding you,
tonight, and in the future,
dreaming up the way we’ll dance,
slow, as we don’t know how to waltz
close, cause there’s no better way,
together, since there’s no one else in the universe at this party
just the color of our souls, dressed in velvet
—in house poet
