Carnal Madness (+2)

The prostrate lizard,
hated savior,
crawls the crooked road to the city

 

Figures, sinking with the light,
bending your prayers
—watching the sun

 

Light retreats
as shadows leave,
emptying space for a new awareness

 

Its carnal madness
telling again and again
—how far you’ve come

 

(West Philadelphia: December, 1972)

 

 

Sold Unborn

 

Give me back my kidnapped youth,

distiller of the night

 

Return the sun from whence it’s gone,

expose this darkened fright

 

Give me back the future-past,

all memory on the run

 

Return those days once sold unborn

—to where my joy has gone

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2020)

 

 

Vox A Priori

 

A Poet first,

long before the first word

 

Musings inherent

—crying to be heard

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2020)