gone to gone quartet- 36 heartbeats
1
thinking love might have held you
when the gone of love was long
2
hoping love might have melted
the memory of
love's throng
3
meeting love in slowness
when the pace of love stung quick
4
taking love from the places
the hand of love prefixed
5
knowing the syntax of feeling
when the suffix of love left out
6
greeting the word lost once when
the third and the twice were in doubt
7
leaving the rhythm behind you
when the shout of love’s distance pretends
8
praying for all love’s beginnings
the middles that stifle the ends
9
lifting the core wrought by sorrow
when the heft of the verse falls through
*
1
we answered pleasure with promise
where keeping had run out of time
2
we traversed the summit of loveliness
where the beauty of heights failed to shine
3
when the air left us panting with lightness
our hearts were weighted by fear
4
when the fusion of souls moved beyond us
our darting eyes filled with tears
5
what of the keeping betrayed us
when the pact of our breath was made
6
what then could leaving have left us
when the steep of the hill failed the grade
7
why was the empty of flow
over the brim of our hopes
8
why do the loveliest rathers
over reach that upon which we dote
9
what do the leaves tell the flowers
over seasons begging to end
*
1
pulling the ripe out of blossom
greening the rot of the ear
2
corning the ship of the mast on
the rim of the cob left to rip
3
plucking the tuft of the cotton
wiggling the lobe of the mirror
4
when the sound of the food ripe to rotting
and the shaft of the lip loses grip
5
tonguing the lapping falsetto
left to the tonsil of cheer
6
castrating the balls of the diamond
filling the ballast by the pier
7
smirking the spine bald of fear
cringing at heart’s lost facade
8
towing the line left to curvature
roping the calves left to leg
9
keeping the handout palmless
robbing the borrow from beg
*
1
twirling the stick in the mud
pulled from marshes of sheen
2
tweeking the pads of the lilies
curled by the glint of esteem
3
thinking love could have bound them
when the plinth of love crumbled on
4
hoping love should have coddled
the memory of
loves tumbling song
5
meeting love in retreat
when the backwards of love came forth
6
raking love from the gardens
the fingers of love pushed in
7
knowing the grammar of stealing
when the clause of love fell through
8
greeting a world lost without us
the thud and the splice cut down
9
leaving the lyric to heaven
when the rasp of love’s stammer distends
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