ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT
Jazz radio on a midnight kick, Round about Midnight.
Sitting on the bed, With a jazz type chick Round about Midnight,
Piano laughter, in my ears, Round about Midnight.
Stirring up laughter, dying tears, Round about Midnight.
Soft blue voices, muted grins, Excited voices, Father’s sins, Round about Midnight.
Come on [...]
ALL THOSE SHIPS THAT NEVER SAILED
All those ships that never sailed The ones with their seacocks open That were scuttled in their stalls … Today I bring them back Huge and transitory And let them sail Forever.
All those flowers that you never grew— that you wanted to grow The ones that [...]
JAZZ CHICK
Music from her breast, vibrating Soundseared into burnished velvet. Silent hips deceiving fools. Rivulets of trickling ecstacy From the alabaster pools of Jazz Where music cools hot souls. Eyes more articulately silent Than Medusa’s thousand tongues. A bridge of eyes, consenting smiles reveal her presence singing Of cool remembrance, happy balls Wrapped [...]
