Why not get into the holiday spirit with some lines? These I wrote while traveling this past summer. They feel warm to me, silly, carefree, and yearning. Skim them, or sit on a word for a long time. They are here to keep you company. Personally I like the last one the best.
(HAIKU IN ORTIGIA)
Dancing in the sky
Before one wild good free fuck
Two birds o’er the sea
HVAR GLOAM
I try and fail to make
Sense / my efforts dead
And lifeless beauty always
Escapes to grasp my eye—
O lavender sky
Help me cry
O lavender, bye bye
Sweet toothy rhymes
And clanked forks in wrong hands
Against dull knifes
Help me, lavender sky
Maybe, maybe, perhaps
Zits popped and sores cold
One can but look ahead
Do your duty as you live
Full of full of this
HVAR TWILIGHT
Free from the parents who
Forced him to wear that speedo
The boy kicks a green ball and plays
To contentment, for solitary boredom
All, this is, hurray, but a sweet
Respite till dinner (which with luck
Or soon enough) will come with bells
Under the lavender sky and a
Calmly sunset falling
: Free from trouble, everything
–Falling calmly the setting sun
GAIOLA YOUTHS
This cruel world
That holds hot lovers
At separate attentions
(Cool breeze
And warm
Sea salt sun)
Why must I sit up here?
He looks away from /
She looks at him
: The pretty bella
: The dopey dude
She splashes you,
Shows you her nails
(I wouldn’t need such tricks)
She clearly wants you . . .
You, playing games, or looking
for better . . . yes that . . .
While I could settle
On her chest
The weight of all my
Body—to blow up
And wipe away even the flakes
Of rock off her white bottom
So tan . . . but would that work for her?
Clearly not.
What he’s doing works.
This cruel world.
VOS Y YO
Somos solos
Y estaremos solos
Por ahora no
Pero pronto sí:
Estaremos solos
Esperando el oro
De nuestro
Pronto porvenir
Por ahora no—
Sólo plata, esto,
Estar sólo solo
Sin ti
Pero pronto sí
A solas nosotros
Mi voz sobre vos
Tu voz sobre mí:
En ese entonces
Siendo sólo un solo
No seremos juntos
Sino todo y todo
Solo y todo
Cómo somos
Sentir mi voz sobre vos
Tu vos sobre mí.
