Showing posts with label yellow hair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yellow hair. Show all posts

10 October 2011

the simpler life


lucy cured lonelieness

         in the sand

        with a branch

she had to

what’s changed
age
      forgiveness
that virtuous luxury

honor

is an only child
it’s foolish
              but fine
         and

looks mean everything

         the simpler life

cotton wool
      cement
eitzel
      recompense

a sacred charge
from the lord
      a binding contract
where
      half is never half
unless

         it has to be
                                                                                             
sounds like laughing
                                                                 from a distance

we didn’t get along when she was alive
but things are different
                        when you die

i know what a woman at the top of a staircase means
      toeing worn wood
staring at saving grace
      the last line
the seized ships
      ruby      red      lips







27 September 2011

pretty girls play the clarinet


she was someone that i used to know
a smile so familiar
seen a hundred times
the nervous laugh was gone though
and

she was old enough to
look like another someone that i knew
the flutist
from alden
with freckles
with child

it took a minute to click we stared
not a lovers stare
not a strangers stare
there was something in there
something in between
kind
but lean
and it was difficult to say who got there first
i think it was me

she thinks it was her

                          still
she may be the exception
to the townes rule
that yellow headed women
bring nothing but pain
if i have to explain
if you think that thin air
brings fame
you might have not been listening

                                                                but
she never caused me any pain
all she ever did
was be the refrain
and i did things
to see the smile 
      time and again
it was a crush
i’m sure
deft          and           demure
she liked to show me to her sister
who never understood
but once got the laugh meant for smiley
meant for good
and that day cemented
what could never be heard
because the light eyes
and the real smiles
didn’t need the words