Her

How Can you ask whether I care
Don’t you know with her dancing in my middle
My fetishes deserted me
And her rhythm leads me heartwards
To this moment

How can you ask whether I care
Don’t you know that, for her, my madness
Has created a sacred presence
in my memory
were my peace shall live

2010

Afrique

Have our roots have bent your back
through the dusty dunes and humid leaves
We carry you around on our skins
No matter how long we left
The drums have stored in our blood
your language, in an old silence


2010

4am

We cannot be afraid said he
But I am just a chicken
Running for my cave
From 3am’s guilt
I have been trying to stave
I looked into myself trying to be brave
He said, before you head for your grave
It would be wise to study
How what haunts you behaves



2010

how it may seem

Of how it might seem
That stillness hides a terror
So that you lock down
Flee from the quiet
forget the sky
But
today in the gutter, water reflected
A waiting sun
with its rainbow rings

2010

Charlie

At check point Charlie
Before I listened to phrenology
I was schooled in the way of the shadows
And my back knows
The inner mouth of a policeman
Before the sounds are said right
We know who you are
But can’t mention your name

2010

Delta

Once more onto the banana leaves
That grows on the red mud floor
beside the paw-paw green
over a patient rain gully
and its coming murderous deluge
On a night, that bestraddles the between
of the child’s piercing wail
and the cricket’s lonely sound
and the smelless air, and the dim solar lights
and the laden avocado tree, and the empty tarmac road
and yet .. and yet .. and

2010

the ground

As sometimes it is fast as it is slow
the space is between a verse
the vacuum full ,with my unease
my faith has taken a silent blow
what abundance, I just can’t see
there is no dance in the world beneath

Then tide changed the shapes underfoot
now eyes wandered about were they stood
atop the hill, built of shell and sand
a conspiracy between sea and feet
despite my fear making the rounds
to make me forget there was a ground

2010

Nazarene

Its with heavy heart, we search for thee
Why so, we never found
beseech you in despair’s midst
When all else left
But faith in your light

For this is our nakedness
Our lonely awe
From all the shame stored
In the memory of our acts

So while breath persists
Our life in this shadow will consist
Of kneeling, with our mortal thoughts
in prayer



2010

Being Still

Being Still, while it tumbles
With you in the dryer
Staring through it’s window

At one point the program will end
And you may get out
Perhaps in new clothes
Perhaps Naked
There is no guarantee, there never was
The source of all despair

2010

Poem number 3

The underpass is where we are looking for
Said goldilocks
Where the bears will be blind
So through the needles
thrice the sea of dreams
Where the serpent lay
On its abyssal bed
Encircle the box and jump the key
Fall out of maya
to the palace of unknowns
And complete the journey
For which we were born


2010

little revolutions of the spirit

Like a fish swims before the sun's silhouette
wades in the forever deep
We are those endlessly turning eyes
Beholders of the wateriness

Dispatch an Epistle, to our hungers
we, who daydream in cycles
Wish for a perchance satiation
With the cometh of a new wave


2010

Vallejo Cesar

Madam, I am finally here
Hiding in the night spurs of your kitchen
And I am not galloning zeros
On some provincial bed
Or sipping in maimed air
On Thursdays mortal bones
With the moon at Champs Elysee’s
Were I left my trousers
In a great situation
On a Paris bench

2010

weight

We are not sure were the cruelty starts
I look upon you
Weighed you in my private account
My Lord, Chief Justice
There’s no witness at your defence
were stars hide their death
I swallow your sentence
on my ancestral scales
Handed down without examination
Of their intended purpose
From an ignorant antiquity

2010

untitled

A scream from nowhere
Beating your head against pillows
In this room you are one
None but your ears, why else

your dreams
For les enfant, why should they
satisfy your longing with smiles
No it will not conform

2010

wedding

Insert into this space
Joy,
the expanding heart
drums in the chest
and forces a smile
that hides the sunshine

in plain view, my longings
extinguished by a single vow
on this day of our union
and in the whiteness of your veil
a canvass, on which
we etch a new dream


2010

I Know

I know I have fallen
And deep
For you
I know
And I loath
To admit
How I am scared
So I search
For the rock
To hide the embarrassment
Of a heart
That only comes alive
With you

2010