HERE COMES THE SUN
I love Frank O Hara crushed by
a Jeep at 40 His poems lyrical &
deep I love Frank’s face on the
pastel cover of his Selected Poems
He looks like a beautiful boy wonder
with freckles & a ponderous stare
Mouth ½ open eyelashes long
O Frank a death so violent for a man
of such charm
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*Inspired by: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE SUN AT FIRE ISLAND 1958 FRANK O HARA
Winter 2012
A CLOWN WITH BLUE HAIR
Driving along Queen St. today under cover of grey
fall splendor squandered
Marching drones & clones
in large numbers wander
A day is a day is a Hark!
A young clown with blue hair
is smiling at the troops He is unspeakably beautiful
His smile urgent & fleeting
casting pearls before the swine
He’s mine all mine I want to take him home to meet my mother
And marry him if he’ll have me
—
Fall 2011
YOU HAVE GENIUS WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE
Watching kids play tag in the glaring sun
I catch a glimpse of their future selves
There a secretary and you a wiry bicycle
courier or street urchin? So androgynous
in your Tilly hat you may be nymph or gnome
She calls you Simon and you laugh with wild
abandon Little yellow clogs barely hold your
pigeon toes Simon I think I love you
—
Summer 2011
TWO OLD GALS
There is a wedge
between
my
Mother(88) & Me(55)
It’s 33
Whenever I tell her
I feel old
she thumps me
and says:
You’re young
Whenever she tells me
she’s old
I just thump her
Think we liked it
better
when I was
11 & she
was my
young Mum
When young & old
were
highly
theoretical
And she
really had it
made –
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Spring 2008
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE IF YOU CAN LITTLE GIRL
There’s nothing like coming home
the way a child comes
home
When home is the beacon
flashing the signal:
Here is your Mother your Father your Dog
Your purple bedroom
Your raggedy brothers
One who has
shaved off his eye-brow
You bound up those steps
like there’s no
tomorrow
And there is no tomorrow kid
That home –
Those child-brothers
The young Mother & Father
will seem figments
of your
waning imagination
someday
So bound up those stairs girl!
Race home
Your black poodle & smiling grandfather
on their
separate chairs
await you
RUN
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Winter 2007
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