"swing dance" - 11/19/02

stinging me
like you're bees in my
bear-cage
the bittersweet ways
you thread through my mind
subtracting the sweet from the
sound of your voice I'd still
be left with laughter and
limitless choice
the image of it all
of your startling confidence
shining like starlight against
marble floors
wet with wakefulness and these
sudden, unshifting
desires to support

what figure-eights only
your limbs could dance slowly
in circles without even
moving around my mad
heart - the beauty of stillness
a blessing unknown to this
mansion of sadness each
room henceforth barred
to anyone else before this future
"once upon"

please

don't

wake Her from

this House's

into-the-woods

(Skyscraper

Seducer)

missive
missing
mr.

honest