Poem: “Hermes of the Black Rocks”
Savage be the lines that embrace me,/
Erase me, like yesterday’s revelation,/
Crisscrossing the sacred heart/
That trembles to take me./
My own heart flickers and flutters, like a porch light/
Trembling at the weight of moths./
Electrified, electrocuted,/
These tendrils shock and shake us, as careless as water upon the spark/
To dim or to burn or to drown:/
No one knows. /
Free, the sky kisses me,/
Tasting like blueberry jam./
On a windy summer night,/
The stars graze me, burn me,/
Make me all that I am./
They say he drinks moonshine/
On black rocks on the strand,/
But I walked on moonlight/
And came to understand,/
He drinks the fire of desire/
To sing messages of love./
The sky opened up/
And swallowed a dream/
So all these sea shell bones could walk free./
As jelly fish swim in the heaven’s above,/
We glow all we know about/
The strange ways of love.
