Wednesday, April 18, 2012

That time at
  the beach
Sand and salt and burn
  quiet kisses, and turning stomachs
like those damn waves

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

True Love

Your sickness made me
a little sick, it's
true--I still
feel it
    Mayakovsky got down
           on his knees
    and declared
                       his love
  to his last
                  mistress
             a few hours after he'd met her
Remember me
at the hotel
                in Paris,
          on my knees
            in the lift?
We're all the same
men of too much passion
and a little talent--
     some a little more
                     than others
      We fool ourselves
          into thinking
                      we're strong
              then complain
            the rest of our lives
                crippled by
                  the consequences.

  --Barry Gifford