Category Archives: Love
Merrow
space Sea-maid with your red-feathered cap, standing off the wildest western shores no one will ever name: Sing to me the daze of that collapsing wave which beds my smile in yours: What draws you to this beach only my … Continue reading
Lonely Town
space Far beneath a sea of wild jungle canopy sleep ancient Mayan cities, palaces and temple heights and market squares all empty, eviscerate, drowned for centuries beneath hundreds of leagues of thick-cabled of green. No one quite knows why these … Continue reading
The Mermaid Wife
“Mermaids Kissing” by Alphonse Mucha space The water seeress comes to me up from the abysm of our sleep, a fish-woman both animal and numen, scaly-nubile, her voice in the sea so blent in blue that dreams crest and breast … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Blue, Devotions, Grails, History, Immrama, Love, Oran, Otherworlds, Post-Christianity, The Sea
Sea-Copyist
space Quite the fool’s errand, eh Lord, measuring the breadth and depth of wildest seas with just these thimbles of white paper, a copyist in the sea’s scriptorium, writing down its book wave by gale by gloom. Might as well … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Creativity, Devotions, Immrama, Love, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Nature, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Prayer, Sexuality, Spirituality, the library down under, The Sea, Voyagers
The Poetics of Because
Photo: Tracey Grumbach space What comes after. What blooms because. Not the World Trade Center but its deeper pools of pouring souls. Not the starry gambol but its slow ruin into rain-streaked panes. Not the wooing but the way love … Continue reading
Filed under Aging, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Death, Devotions, Garden Lore, Grails, Immrama, Love, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Post-Christianity, Prayer
Beatrice to Dante
“Venus Verticordia,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1868. space While she lived and they secretly loved space You know for someone who says art is pure heart you sure aren’t much of a lover. I like little gifts that say you’re thinking … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Grails, Love, Oran, Poetry, Sexuality, Spirituality
The Flood
space Your house by the sea is not a married one. You are lonely for your wife remembering how soft and open she sleeps, her pale body curving and falling around a green silk nightdress. Your heart breaks thinking of … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Death, Dream, Feral animals of the soul, Grails, Love, Madness and Mania, Natural Supernatural, Poetry, The Dark, The Sea
The Stand
space I don’t much recall how I got into those rooms—-at closing time all doors are dark-—though waking in memory always seemed the same, bedside in rooms lost in suburbs you know are out there yet pray to never see, … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Blue, Death, Devotions, Feral animals of the soul, Forest Shenanagans, Grails, Immrama, Love, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Noir, Poetry, Sexuality, The Dark, Voyagers
Icelandic Poppy
Photo: Timm O’Cobhthaigh space The bonfire of its widest bloom is almost terrifying were it not so sweet, a welcome shattering my morning reveries with its orange and yellow bell, its beauty freighted in from those regions of blue ice … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Death, Devotions, Garden Lore, Grails, Grief, Love, Natural Supernatural, Otherworlds, Prayer, Remembrance
Graveyard Shift At The Crystal Cabaret
space Four to six a.m.’s my show, scrubbing the tables and running the vacuum, Journey on the PA system blasting evergreen desire over the night’s trashed pasties. The mess is predictable, the squalor of lust that pays such a high … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Aging, Beauty Heals, Culture, Death, Devotions, Grails, Love, Madness and Mania, Noir, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry
