Thursday, September 9, 2010

kryptonite...


dark and cruciform
forged in the pit
it drew you to the altar
in that chapel
five years to the day
with its own deep gravity
and there you stood
oh superman
with your index finger
extended like a child's
knowing it would burn
you touched it
and at last
the long abated tide
swept the shore in waves...
lucy meskill

Thursday, September 2, 2010

LLLLL...


whenever I'm feeling blue
I like to say aloud the letter L
L is for la and loquacious
L is for loafer and lamp
L is for lover and lambent
L is for leaver and latch
I love the shape my tongue takes
tucked behind my teeth,
bowed like a little sail,
billowed by air my lungs make
hey! they also begin with L...

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

jubilation...



like Lazarus enkindled
I rise awake unbound
to face the willing sunrise
spilling over ground

the mote of doom impended
I pluck from out my eye
moving and uncoiling
beneath a different sky

the cloth of vague disaster
now pooling on the ground
as Icarus un-falling
I reach the speed of sound

traversing skies not punished
for dreaming in my sleep
no fear of fullness follows me
impelling through the deep

this permanent affection
for living in the light
for comfort in the shadows
for reason in my sight...