tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12259409414165339592024-03-13T06:05:23.557-07:00The Untold Nightwhistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-57067700171154147782011-12-19T17:58:00.001-08:002011-12-19T17:58:47.989-08:00winter bathesdrops of red wine<br />
dribble down my chin<br />
into the bath<br />
to stew lukewarm<br />
with hairs, dirt,<br />
body.<br />
<br />
the television advertises<br />
a man who can control<br />
the temperature of his body<br />
with his mind --<br />
how indivisible.<br />
<br />
i pick a blemish at my jaw.<br />
there is no containment<br />
everything fades<br />
nothing<br />
holds<br />
fast<br />
<br />
i scrape at myself<br />
and watch<br />
the vapors rise.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-84389776229612990992010-12-03T15:48:00.000-08:002010-12-03T15:48:11.417-08:00In My Rain-Soaked HatTime to collect my reckless ambitions and throw them in a pot to simmer and stew. Chop up my stares into glances. My lonely afternoons. How the light traces the corniced borders of my room, cut into squares by single-pane windows, headlights chasing themselves along the wall. Outside this box is a real cage, certified bridge jumpers, mad mutterers, and whoever stole my bike. I can pick some orange flowers, crêpe-y and translucent as an old Halloween decoration left to rot away in the wet, I can carry them with me as I walk to sleep. Though I won’t remember until after I miss them that I once had anything. I am so behind on gossip. The cup of tea is clammy in my grip, the water grown cold. Intermittent snatches of a popular song reach my red-rimmed ears, and mermaid-like I’m borne to crest and sink in time.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-35640704639663169232010-12-03T15:47:00.001-08:002010-12-03T15:47:09.006-08:00GratitudeHand-cut flowers<br />
of dry autumnal blazes<br />
are perched on their branches<br />
like leaves. The sun shimmers through them.<br />
They sit on a chair in her now-vacant room.<br />
<br />
It was raining on Sunday, <br />
the clouds spilled<br />
into the monochrome bay,<br />
and I sat at my window watching<br />
birds play – tumbling as though<br />
into your gentle arms;<br />
the way she did when you placed<br />
a hand-cut bouquet on the chair<br />
in her room with a view of the bay.<br />
<br />
As your uncle played a melody, unconsciously<br />
you hummed in tune, never off-key;<br />
and she listened softly to the loving<br />
bodies that sent the slightest tremors<br />
through the air; <br />
and a tear spilled down her loving cheek,<br />
sharing in peaceful gratitude.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-7759718528034729592010-12-03T15:45:00.001-08:002010-12-03T15:45:25.599-08:00It LingersYou got attached. Like an orchid<br />
Looped around a tepid swamp long, except – <br />
We might both be, flesh-like<br />
And alluring, hosts to our own<br />
Parasitic proclivities.<br />
<br />
You wanted more. A taste of pineapple<br />
Now lingers, stuck to the mouths<br />
That shared vast slipping vengeances.<br />
<br />
You said hello yesterday;<br />
But not to me, not to me.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-8588675170344999722010-10-22T14:34:00.000-07:002010-10-22T14:34:00.973-07:00SuspenseCatch me hold me don't let go<br />
I have 500 ft to fall <br />
and the relief I cast <br />
on this sheer wall<br />
calls too much notice to<br />
my singular state.<br />
<br />
If a man draws near, level<br />
with him. He will reach down<br />
a hand, gloved with a grin---<br />
You take it, why is it offered<br />
while his hobnail boot bears<br />
down on your hand<br />
with muted force<br />
<br />
I yanked the brake; they<br />
know me here.<br />
And barely,<br />
barely can you grasp.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-8148530942262272592010-10-22T14:33:00.000-07:002010-10-22T14:33:21.050-07:00Shake the Babytrebling wail not unlike the plaintive, guilty yowl <br />
of the alley cat - those hands must work hard<br />
day in day out of the darkness there comes light<br />
<br />
i can't imagine<br />
that what i do imagine <br />
has true bearing on the matter; <br />
what is the matter?<br />
<br />
averting the light from those abalone-blue sleepy peepers<br />
luminous with misplaced rage, the sort that bank tellers<br />
must receive when the stock is down; <br />
what if i shine this light in those tender bulging eyes<br />
pupils contracted in cruelty; furious resentful won't forgive<br />
me tomorrow; in self-constructed sorrow.<br />
<br />
Shake the baby: see what falls out.<br />
hard work to learn that hard work doesn't necessarily<br />
accomplish what is greater than its constituent parts.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-69546815395542549872010-10-22T13:58:00.000-07:002010-10-22T13:58:59.194-07:00As Reflected in Your Eyesand how does the moon,<br />
with the force of a reflected gaze,<br />
shine brighter than the stars<br />
to behold the day?<br />
<br />
clouds like strobe lights<br />
cast dancing, disorienting effects<br />
across the already indeterminate<br />
surface of the bay<br />
<br />
the liquid tension carves<br />
up into withering peaks<br />
that rise languidly<br />
like the encompassing hills<br />
but crash chaotically<br />
like the encircling<br />
cults of personality<br />
that careen through our<br />
quotidian days<br />
<br />
and how your eyes do<br />
capture all this,<br />
to shine brighter than <br />
the sunlight.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-13238354958111530172010-09-21T15:54:00.002-07:002010-10-22T13:49:30.795-07:00A Perplexing PersonalityWhat a puzzle<br />
to suss out – <br />
a thousand targets,<br />
vague in their multitude,<br />
that swarm around you<br />
like termites as you probe<br />
the carefully constructed<br />
pillars and tunnels,<br />
my secrets which suggested<br />
themselves to you.<br />
<br />
Stir up the answers, sure –<br />
but to catch even one<br />
would be a feat<br />
beyond your evolution.<br />
<br />
A corpus of confusion<br />
may disclose itself,<br />
expelled like soggy ectoplasm.<br />
Put your arms around me.<br />
Our fingers will not lace,<br />
but together we can contemplate<br />
the nonplussed facets<br />
of my psychiatry.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-81718071810776184012010-09-21T15:54:00.000-07:002010-09-21T15:55:37.163-07:00Elysian, Altered<style>
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<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Taken by the trees, she was</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">A scion of the underbrush,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And whirring blurs</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Of sundrenched wings</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Sank toward the sky</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">So lazily,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">In syncopated entropy.</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And tangled hair</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Snagged golden burrs</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Sweetly scented in the warmth,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And they did cling to mountain child</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">To be plucked off with absent smile</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And left among the redwood towers,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Ivy vines and wild flowers.</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">For flight she took</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Past tree and briar</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Through sun-baked field</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And veiled ravine,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Till she reached shore,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Those ragged miles </div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Carved by waves tempestuous,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">With rocky cove and bleached tide pool,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And sand fell into undertow,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Left only clouds to pass the time;</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And surf stripped bare</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Her hidden feet</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">That strove to grasp the ceding ground.</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Taken with the waves she was,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And lazy floated toward the sky</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">To meet the lonely albatross</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">And join him in his eddied flight;</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">A scion of the heart to be,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">How could she chase green reverie,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">To dance along, on sunlit feet,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">The brushwood kind,</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">The height of trees.</div>whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-5902857666509217142010-08-26T15:22:00.000-07:002010-12-03T15:44:48.002-08:00Gemini RisingWe followed the sun;<br />
Let’s stalk the starry nights <br />
above the wet ground. <br />
<br />
The light in your grin, <br />
gleaming mischievous, <br />
is surely my guide. <br />
<br />
Layered deep and near,<br />
those pinpoints carve windmills<br />
as we crane our necks upwards.<br />
Spin spin dizzy light - <br />
Carve the space,<br />
Relative to nothing,<br />
Except for us.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-39732173289444703172010-06-15T22:43:00.000-07:002010-06-15T22:43:28.636-07:00It Pours Ever Fortheverything i put in my mouth feels impossibly dry<br />
even my tongue<br />
crushing up against the roof of my mouth.<br />
<br />
slowly my glands must dilate<br />
for i compact<br />
food into a globular package<br />
delivered lengua fresca<br />
<br />
a little joke can release<br />
torrents, abashed<br />
jubilant sobs unhinged by the mysteries of secretion<br />
things the soul cannot keep<br />
<br />
not everything i put in my mouth<br />
will sustain me<br />
sustenance comes rare these days<br />
oh! how the hunger aches and roars!<br />
it is acid that pours from me<br />
wretched through watery eyes<br />
survey with bitter pleasure<br />
the ripest fruit of my stagnation<br />
at last, to be matched.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-36703351410879258132010-06-15T17:50:00.000-07:002010-06-15T17:50:00.466-07:00Hollow Depthsoceans wash over me<br />
murky green with marine dust<br />
float down<br />
sink down arms trailing<br />
infinite blue diaphonous<br />
shafts and hollows<br />
light the symbols<br />
of my decay:<br />
my body - heavy and full<br />
the day - shrinking pupils everywhere<br />
water - cross under the waves<br />
debris -detritus -desire -despair<br />
hollows between even the molecules<br />
insipid holes<br />
to allow space between.<br />
Waves seek the high<br />
my hollows are the low<br />
my arms caress detritus and dust alike<br />
my selfish form cradled by the<br />
ascending bottom<br />
the endless illusion of color<br />
in intimate deception of the heartwhistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-45945962778322736912010-06-10T10:45:00.000-07:002010-06-10T10:45:57.897-07:00Watching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5ChdkFw5G4/TBEkxAKKlKI/AAAAAAAAAZY/GdzWQxoxMV8/s1600/DSCN2013-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5ChdkFw5G4/TBEkxAKKlKI/AAAAAAAAAZY/GdzWQxoxMV8/s640/DSCN2013-1.JPG" width="480" /></a></div>whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-82288761316912834112010-06-10T10:43:00.000-07:002010-06-10T10:43:05.053-07:00Old Future Hopes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b5ChdkFw5G4/TBEjbGZcKdI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/U3GLdWHu2no/s1600/DSCN1992-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b5ChdkFw5G4/TBEjbGZcKdI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/U3GLdWHu2no/s640/DSCN1992-1.JPG" width="480" /></a></div>whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-57238819902186156172010-04-22T22:02:00.001-07:002010-04-22T22:02:36.673-07:00NestingBoudoir branches<br />
Avian dreams<br />
Back and forth <br />
between green leaves.<br />
<br />
Eat the gnats<br />
that mill in swarms.<br />
Tiny swirling circles.<br />
<br />
Cry my cry<br />
though know<br />
one comes<br />
Can birds sigh?<br />
If so, I'm one.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-53847460981397499312010-04-22T17:31:00.001-07:002010-04-22T17:31:30.467-07:00Alright Altar BoyAlright, Altar Boy<br />
of the worst<br />
sacramental misgivings<br />
shibboleth fire<br />
transvestite kisses<br />
<br />
Nibble on<br />
a loaf of bread<br />
as you kneel<br />
on the curbwhistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-23069820493270363182010-04-22T17:30:00.003-07:002010-04-22T17:30:54.720-07:00How to invoke the gods:Tentacle dreams of untold night<br />
the notches of my spine collide<br />
the muscles tighten cross my back<br />
the tingling speaks to what I lack<br />
Flaming flame of seaborn spheres<br />
the struggling fish assuage my fears<br />
the tightening net the struggle binds<br />
the black-eyed bruises<br />
the slack-jawed wife.<br />
Oft told, the wants that starve the needs<br />
The beaten traveler strikes his steed<br />
The craggy sailor cuts his beard<br />
The captive swimmer swimming far<br />
From aft to end to fore to yaw<br />
And still the lure accepts the stock<br />
the hook yearns for a fleshy jaw<br />
the traveling sailor shoots his wife,<br />
the cephalopodan stiff, the nightwhistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-88049586771358295022010-04-22T17:30:00.001-07:002010-04-22T17:30:23.282-07:00I cut my hand <br />
on a piece of glass<br />
from a broken<br />
wine bottle that you smashed<br />
We tried to drink<br />
what remained inside<br />
behind the old construction site<br />
The cops walked past<br />
but never guessed<br />
the violence of<br />
that night<br />
When you took my<br />
hand and didn't<br />
notice<br />
the blood in the <br />
street's cold lightwhistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-85607875888340348622010-04-22T17:03:00.000-07:002010-04-22T17:03:53.416-07:00The PhilosopherI bet she's a lot of fun naked.<br />
<br />
She has a way with money<br />
She never seems to care<br />
Put me in your wallet, dear<br />
So I fall out<br />
along with change<br />
loose receipts<br />
lint<br />
Put my on your bookshelf<br />
The one in your office<br />
with the rams head busts <br />
carved out of stonewhistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-77600347842376587652010-04-22T17:01:00.001-07:002010-09-27T22:22:58.648-07:00Atmospheric PerspectiveUnrelenting gusts<br />
leaf through my hair<br />
earth presses against<br />
the weight of my step<br />
<br />
I cry, I cry<br />
through a<br />
silver sieve <br />
(plated)<br />
Drip drops<br />
the wine:<br />
Tannic victory<br />
<br />
Atmospheric phases<br />
of mist<br />
twinged bright<br />
across the lanterns<br />
tacked fog<br />
to fog<br />
to eyelids,<br />
misty cheeks,<br />
perspective<br />
<br />
Lady of the rocks<br />
thy immaculate cave<br />
offers no shelter.<br />
<br />
Distant figures<br />
forms<br />
compose themselves<br />
for you<br />
a gust reveals<br />
a calm<br />
concealswhistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-87451684310151662692010-04-22T16:56:00.001-07:002010-04-22T16:56:15.594-07:00RetreatInstant<br />
retreat as slick as your hair<br />
Custer should have been<br />
so brave.<br />
The Alamo always falls<br />
Carthage is always razed<br />
And no one can recall<br />
Sweet Cassandra's gaze.whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-28995341109388278302010-04-22T16:55:00.004-07:002010-04-22T16:55:52.611-07:00The Propheteer<div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Within map lost</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">and without</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">no home</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">but home what home</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Port Passage grant</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">me the silver bell;</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">one of the glimmering set.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">A door is opened, room revealed</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">a mattress of corn husks</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">a pillow of fur</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">a cup, full yet with</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">still-warm petals, still</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">So take me to the diorama</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Bring me</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">To waltz under full</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">halogen moon</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">full halo of a moon</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Stalled memory</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">of my favorite melody</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">or was it tune</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Just can't recall</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">I don't collect, recollect, collect</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">collect</span></span></div></div>whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-90343723906835487842010-04-22T16:55:00.002-07:002010-04-22T16:55:26.841-07:00So Once<div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Autumn would have me</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">among the somber rushes</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">and blusters, gales,</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">and saffron leaves and;</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Toward the rose horizon</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Refracted</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Twice the beam</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">wavers and shakes</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">And the cold glow</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Bathes us both.</span></span></div></div>whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1225940941416533959.post-75606978889817094052010-04-22T16:55:00.000-07:002010-04-22T16:55:00.608-07:00The Hits<div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Under the door a</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">footstep echoes</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">followed by another</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">and so forth</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Whistle bright</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">whistle slow</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">As the hits</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">drew nearer</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">We got the beat, yeah.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">We got the sliver</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">under the door</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">through the blinds</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">Across the sheet</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">And so forth</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;">the echo fades</span></span></div></div>whistlebrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682782866596283089noreply@blogger.com0