In our talk there was a kind of sex that lingered in the open doorways of the tiny empires we built on heavy afternoons, swatting clouds of syllables with our red tongues, speaking flames of insects, bees all yellow-legged & we'd smoke our pollen in grassy green afterwards dreaming words built of the spare parts of those empires. In our arguments there was a kind of sex that dangled from window ledges, danced on the rooftops of loud towns awake and bright into the late early, fed on bitch & asshole accusations bartered at intersections of syllogisms final as stoplights, served up 24-hour desperate but willing to compromise in moans & we'd share our exhaust in the gorgeous empty parking lots of heaven only seen from afar, and only from rooftops at a distance. In our silences there was a kind of sex that floated like cigarette smoke, hung blue and lazy in living rooms curled around coffee cups, ringed fingers yellow aged like paper contracts made of green wood promises of constancy and motion, floating like cigarette smoke and sex and we'd not disturb it with our flowers or feed it grapes, but nurture and mourn its short glory. In our sex there was a kind of talk that spit loud at our smoke, fed on the flies feeding on us, a kind of talk against the cities we built at night and their rooftops, a kind of talk mortared with the slick bones of empires outlasted and we'd smile in dusky beginnings never knowing the bright morning of endings.
i'm too lazy for my normal routine of completely workshopping your pieces (which i apologize) however, i dig this (as i always say) each stanza has some heavy, simple, hard, and light although, a few times, some things are a bit too abstract for me, like in the first stanza "speaking flames of insects, bees all yellow-legged & we'd smoke our pollen in grassy green" -- i don't really get that at all, image-wise however, right before that -- "swatting clouds of syllables with our /red tongues" -- an example of an amazing image each stanza just works so well with each first line that introduces it but as i must always do (as is my own prerogative) i must emphasize: endwords!
