Other Poems of Longing
Table of Contents.
Other Poems of Longing
I. SAUDADE. / SEHNSUCHT. / WELTSCHMERZ.
That Thing...When You Don’t Write For A While
Empathy For My Blue-Beaned Muse
At The Very Least, Today
Birthday in Milwaukee
A Poem
Due Destini
Dusk Over The Capitoline Hill
La Canicule
Calm
Perfect, All But Us
A Good, Long, Hard Look Within
Out of Doors
An Elegy of Silence and Slumber
American Idyll
Suddenly
I Could Just Cry
The Last Poems of Larry Levis
Un Thé Au Sahara / The Sheltering Sky
II. GHAZAL.
I Made Myself The Dog
Until Seventy Times Seven
Infrastructures
False Alarm
I Veer Right, Then Right Again, Straight to Your Door
So This I Am For You
Author Photo
BIOGRAPHY.
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Saudade Sehnsucht Weltschmerz
That Thing When You Don't Write for A While
You start to think of writing with more sanctity.
Like the rarity of that petulant flower,
the night-blooming cereus, meant to die
Under a bright full moon and never more to see a day.
But it wouldn't have it...thought it had so much
More to give. It peels its red flesh back one instance more
And blooms riotously full-faced to the sun to endure
the inevitable cheek slap of blistering light.
Then with a petticoat of exhausted pistils and dried out stamen
It gives up the ghost and falls to earth in defeat as was always
Meant to be. Some would say it’s such a shame all
that bravery...or tomfoolery wasted and witnessed - by no one.