Here's one of the pieces I'm still working on. I wanted to put one of them up. I still don't have a firm title for it since it's changing shapes with each revision, but right now, I'm calling it Persistence.
You surround me
vast, endless
sea, desert, sky
a universe of you
everywhere
A flood of prepositions
sweeping me before you
enfolding me gently or rough
consuming me inside
Your blue eyes peer at me
with gentle and impersonal question
over the rim of every chipped coffee cup
every stranger behind a paperback
is you
gold and blue
Into my ears
subtle as Claudius' poison
slides your music
a rock and roll ventriloquism
still pulling the strings
after you took your voice away
Unkind of you
to have left behind
so many ghosts
when you went away
You should have taken it all
cleared up these shades
of or and azure
that cling like wind-borne incense
fragrance of something
sacred, clean, wild, precise
of the shoulder I used
to lay my head on
in the stillness of the long
moonless night
Instead there's the endless shock
again, again, again
of seeing the monuments
you left behind
carved into the corridors of my soul
like some latter-day pharoah
yearning for immortality
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