Namaste!

Namaste!
August 24, 2010 * Aguas Calientes * Machu Picchu * Peru * South America

poetry and the art of recklessness

"how sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self-defence to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad
after things that are not." *john keats, july 1818
let us riot in the unattainable!
poetry is when the animal bursts forth, inflamed.

*and dean young is spectacular to have written this essay in poets&writers magazine






Monday, April 5, 2010

official arrival, folks!


between 8th and 9th
between deli and thai
an official arrival of spring has sprouted.
it's no matter that i can't pinpoint hyacinths in Central Park,
since i sweat wet lavender and pollen birth.

between fine French and New Jersey foul
between language leftovers on 10 for 1 postcards
between the fruit vendor, carb vendor, pashmina, nuts and keychains;
the official arrival of spring is salivating.
it's no matter i'm saturated, since i live in the Kitchen of the Melting Pot.

so, between the airport and an off-broadway rehearsal
between ORD and my entrance down into the wedding rabbit hole,

the official arrival of a proposal has occurred!

between the transition and upheaval
between our luscious parisian lifestyle lilt and
dutch -gracht and -stradt wonderings of tulips tip-toed up narrow staircases...

between this hustled choice of life and travel,

we paused.

he kneeled.
i gaped.
there was a ring.
we popped a cork.
he swig. i swig.
i made phone calls.
he went back to work.

i said a holy YES within the hustle!

and, the official arrival of an engagement has me sweating flora
as my foul mouth trumpets elation, f*ck! yeah!

(now, if i can only manage the b**chin' subway!)

namaste, to my fiance!
3-31-10

2 comments:

  1. well, thanks, man! didn't know anyone was still reading all this!
    a genuine thank you. very much appreciated coming from another writer.
    :-)

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