Well, I found a woman stronger than anyone I know At last…my love has come along. My lonely days are over ’cause you make me feel so brand new and I want to spend my life with you I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you’re…
Bashert
She sat there in a suit, my bashert let me introduce myself with resume and cover Time was uncovered, her life I did discover my life, my career, a season, a cycle A gym I shared, I yearn, I spin, I cycle I tilted, I lilted, with heartbeats may I join you too My boy,…
Love is not a Word
Love is a bowl of morning latte hot and waiting set quietly on a bedside table Love is the cradle of a lap, fallen into on a Friday night overcome with the weariness of a week spent separately together Love is the warmth of a blanket draped warm around your shoulders, comforted, watching an Atlantic…
Wuthering Heights
I. My ghost of us strides upon the heath, unrequited, I’m stained hungry with regret steps cover the discarded, morning mist with fast feet leaving not a print on the shards of blasted bedrock, heaved hard, my breast of bramble wild and untempered, feral love, once your attention had tamed, wild again wants what it…
The Story of a Dog
This is the story of a dog Leo’s body — pressed against my soul My heart beats — with each smile Eyes that melt into my own I fetch your gaze — fixed upon a tree I lap at the innocence of the world As I join you in staring at a squirrel Days slow…
Scabulous
My life is stitched together with scars some are hidden within a knee some are visible some you can barely see autographs collected, like stars loved and lost a broken heart mended restarts fool me twice shame on me a shattered heart beats poetic darts reclaim my love the baggage grows love again the story…
the Forest within this Tree
you are the needle within the crown you are the sharp hair in a coating hoar frost you are a beak’s beaten sawdust on the floor you are the pine’s pollen cast on a spring wind you are the robin egg held safe in a nest you are a shadow cool on sweat dripping day…
travel into that good light
Travel Into that Good Light Dale Schierbeck Down down, travel into that good light Our youth burnished new with the rising day Run,run away from the birth of the night. Tangled in the ignorance of the fight Between a divide and an entrance way Down down, travel into that good light. Good dog, loyal and…
Enter Leo
You are a master criminal a canine thief you’ve stolen the rug under my feet once steady in grief memories you’ve rappelled burgled my bed cunningly chewed through a rawhide safe camouflaged yourself in dirt vandalising my garden my chair my everywhere entwined you in me two…
Sex upon a Vine
Seed of my hands Red fruit of my toil A child of my lands Umami bred of soil A poison apple forbidden flesh a stained chapel in wedding dress Woven heirloom culinary ring born of June bloom my pasta’s king You’re sugar and sweet gob smacked bitter acid in mince meat sour before the heat…
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