1)Dinner
Sometimes you look
Like a perfect prince
Your pony tail swish
Hooked nose, broad chin
And sweeping mouth
Sometimes you look
Like an alien spaceship
Eyes folding down in on themselves
Your chide, robotic grin
The weather patterns of your face
Are mine and mine alone
As I gaze at you from
My secret heart
Across the table
2)
My blessed beloved prince
I wrestle you in dreams
Kneading you like bread
Waiting for you to rise
In moments I see clearly
And can separate the two
The man from the God
In you
You rise within me
Tempting flesh
Trembling I wait
Within my cove
Delight, when you unfold me
And come with me, inside
Surprising me with sweet and savory caress
Ecstasy that knows no bounds
Perhaps it was undeserved
The way I opened wide
Perhaps you waited for my wings to spread
So you could take my gold
(And keep your secret)
Precious fingers of man
You know not my invisible heart
And yet you pierce me
A million times
Without saying a word.
Every time you look at me
I offer you my golden medallion
Now I find myself permanently waiting
An open book you refuse to read
I confuse the two, Man and God
I stuff him into you, or try
To call him forth from glimpses glittering
Beneath wide cheeks
The ones that make me dream and quiver
Forever, how I love you.
God housed you
In my eyes
For a moment
A house of flesh and bone
I could love for a short while
An idol, a puppet
Waxed and waned as in a dream
3)
When all the world
Elicits this impossible sweetness
Why try to squeeze it from from human lips and eyes?
Oh strained delight of ages
Oh patient sage-like knowing
Beyond desire
I wait for you
To crown me with your wisdom
Once and for all.