something restless

by panta rhei

Posted to Action Poetry on 2001-09-09 08:23:00



you, who steal the sheets
from my side of the universe
have crept over to crumpled silence

you hold life over the fire
changing the imprint of time

you neutralize hunger with words
and hide gleaming flakes of truth
under your closed eyelids

heat is madness and drug
so were you, once

always
always we would fall
together or apart
in heat and disarmament
in lazy dreams
driven far away by the
eternal wash of the seas

the lies were old and the truth
was new to us

now you swing
chandelier-bright
above the flames in my head

full of whiskey that distilles life into
handsome lovers, smiling mothers and
unshaven angels of drunkenness

but, oh, i’m sure we’re alive
tasting tongues in timeless mortality
lying naked, sheetless and warm
our gapless pulse the simulacrum of eternity

all stars
all halos you
curled under my arm like a seed

and something restless
follows me through sleep