a couple of days off ...

received a nice comment yesterday from a reader that just stumbled onto this blog ... welcome and thanks to everyone for reading and commenting.

got a couple of days off now, before a rash of overtime at the papermill .... so hopefully a couple of updates will follow.

todays poem was published in Sulphur River Literary Review - their Spring 1998 issue. Another small press that keeps the essence of modern poetry alive. the poem was never included in any manuscript or book. Again, if at all possible, support small presses and their publications.


TOMORROW THE SUN WILL SLICE

will you hold me
as if i were damion
fresh from the lepars
will you drink my blood
knowing it could be magic
in the veins of true believers

tomorrow the sun will slice between heavy rain clouds
rainbows will appear
and pine siskins will chatter beneath the nandinas

tomorrow the sun will slice between heavy rain clouds
the wind will be soft and damp
and life will appear as if on a post card

tomorrow the sun will slice between heavy rain clouds
i will empty the bitterness of amber bottles into my veins
and life will merely be penitence served for the sins of living

will you hold me
as if i were christ
fresh off the cross
will you drink my blood
knowing it could be magic
in the veins of true believers