flahute » beach http://www.flahute.com "The mountains are calling, and I must go." —John Muir Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:27:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Poetry Friday http://www.flahute.com/2010/08/06/poetry-friday-184/ http://www.flahute.com/2010/08/06/poetry-friday-184/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:00:59 +0000 flahute http://www.flahute.com/?p=2296 DESIGNER KISSES

I’m glum about your sportive flesh in the empire of blab, and the latest guy running his trendy tongue like a tantalizing surge over your molars, how droll. Love by a graveyard is redundant, but the skin is an obstacle course like Miami where we are inescapably consigned: tourists keeping the views new. [...]]]> DESIGNER KISSES

I’m glum about your sportive flesh in the empire of blab,
and the latest guy running his trendy tongue like a tantalizing surge
over your molars, how droll. Love by a graveyard is redundant,
but the skin is an obstacle course like Miami where we are
inescapably consigned: tourists keeping the views new.
What as yet we desire, our own fonts of adoration. By morning,
we’re laid out like liquid timepieces, each other’s exercise in perpetual
enchantment, for there is that beach in us that is untranslatable; footprints
abound. I understand: you’re at a clothes rack at Saks
lifting a white linen blouse at tear’s edge wondering.

  — From Holding Company: Poems, a new collection by Major Jackson, copyright @copy; 2010. Reprinted without permission.

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BRIGHT EYES – FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE

This is the first day of my life Swear I was born right in the doorway I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed They’re spreading blankets on the beach

Yours was the first face that I saw I think I was blind before I [...]]]>

BRIGHT EYES – FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE

This is the first day of my life
Swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
They’re spreading blankets on the beach

Yours was the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
I don’t know where I am, I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go

So I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever, I especially am slow
But I realized how I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

I remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
You felt as if you just woke up

And you said, this is the first day of my life
Glad I didn’t die before I met you
Now I don’t care, I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy

So if you wanna be with me
With these things there’s no telling, we’ll just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery

Besides maybe this time it’s different
I mean, I really think you like me

Video directed by John Cameron Mitchell

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