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    June 19

    Tennessee Williams part VII

    VII. You and I

    Who am I?

    A wounded man, badly bandaged,

    a monster among angels or angel among monsters,

    a box of questions shaken up and scattered on the floor,

     

    A foot on the stairs, a voice on a wire,

    a busy collection of thumbs that imitate fingers,

    an enemy of yours. Your lover.

     

    Text copyright © 1979 by Tennessee Williams

    June 18

    Tennessee Williams part VI

    VI. The Ice-Blue Wind

     

    Being expert on the zither

    he gave concerts twice a winter ...

     

    His fingers knew The Ice-Blue Wind

    that single score and nothing more.

     

    But what of that? It did suffice

    to close him in a wall of ice,

     

    Tinged with distance, always blue,

    which somehow warmed him through and through.

     

    Long, long after all had gone,

    and in the hall crept winter dawn,

     

    He would strike a final string,

    take a bow and proudly shin

     

    Up a column up to the roof,

    in union with The Absolute.

    June 16

    Tennessee Williams part V

     
     

    V. Wolf's hour

     

    Well, it's three A.M.

    after an hour's sleep and a blond youth who declined to stay with me.

    Wolf's hour of night is not well-spent alone.

     

    Nevertheless there is this bit of comfort:

    in my hands' curved remembrance there remains indelibly

    the unclothed flesh of the youth who refused to stay longer,

    and I could settle for less,

    God knows if not unknowing.

    June 06

    Haïku - Death

     
    DEATH
     
    I am dead again
    Dead without grave or any wreaths
    My heart still beating

    Asking God to take me there,
    Quick - without regrets, remorses.

     
     

    Galaxy Accrostic et Haïku

     
     
    M illiards years before
    I deal way was born
    L
    ook to the sky and see
    K
    nitting of shining stars
    Y
    ellow and white lights

    W alking in heaven
    A
    s much as many tokens
    Y
    ears after years it stays

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    So far from us is
    A galaxy called Milky
    you can read it just

    In raising your eyes towards
    Sky and find the peace in heaven

     




     

     

     

    June 05

    Tennessee Williams part IV

     
     

    IV. Liturgy of Roses

     

    This is for you for whom bloom certainly roses ...

     

    and all of those doors floating open on those who have roses

    going to those who have roses, in chambers which those without roses

    possess no license to enter.

     

    Roses, all roses, the immense impartiality of all God

    and all roses,

    orifice emptying, never emptied of roses.

     

    Because you are tolerant only of those who have roses,

    Your eyes ... saying, These roses, all roses, my roses,

    Though still in the arms of those who came bearing roses.

     

    And by the same token confessing: My tongue, my tongue,

    not your body,

    my body, my body, not yours,

    while murmuring You, while continually murmuring

    You, you, you, which is translated to I

    no matter how murmured to whom.

     

     

    June 04

    Part III - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

     
     

    III. Winter Smoke

    Winter smoke is blue and bitter:

    women comfort you in winter.

     

    Scent of thyme is cool and tender:

    girls are music to remember.

     

    Men are made of rock and thunder:

    threat of storm to labor under.

     

    Cypress woods are demon-dark:

    boys are fox-teeth in your heart.

     

    June 03

    accrostic - A letter

     
     
    A bility for a
     
    L etter to give happiness
    E ngrave words in minds
    T otal sweetness and
    T estimony of love
    E nergy of feelings
    R emain us we are alive ...
     
     
    June 02

    Tennessee Williams (part II)

     

    II. Cruising

     

    Noontime youths,

    thighs and groins tight-jean-displayed,

    loiter onto Union Square,

    junkies flower-scattered there,

    lost in dream, torso-bare,

    young as you, old as I, voicing soundlessly a cry ...

     

    Androgyne, mon amour,

    shadows of you name a price

    exorbitant for short lease.

    What would you suggest I do,

    wryly smile and turn away,

    fox-teeth gnawing chest-bones through?

     

    Even less would that be true

    than, carnally, I was to you

    many, many lives ago,

    requiems of fallen snow.

     

    Androgyne, mon amour,

    cold withdrawal is no cure

    for addiction grown so deep.

    Now, finally, at cock's crow,

    released in custody of sleep,

    dark annealment, time-worn stones

    far descending,

    no light there, no sound there,

    entering depths of thinning breath,

    farther down more ancient stones,

    halting not, drawn on until

     

    Ever treacherous, ever fair,

    at a table small and square,

    not first light but last light shows ...

    Androgyne, mon amour.

    June 01

    miss you

    MISS YOU ...

    Miss you yesterday,
    Miss you today & tomorrow
    Miss you in heaven ...

    Miss you before and after
    Miss you now and for ever