November 2007
You might say abbreviation is a theme here. These are all standalone poems as they were originally written, but I think they work as a sequence fairly well. They’re all under 30 words and 7 lines, though at the time I was pretty much just aiming for “short.”
-To Mercy (by many names)
- Yr red gypsy jangle
Yr radio signal
Yr moonlit face
Yr hair-flown breeze –
Casual and senseless,
Sensual and careless,
As the rhythms of the sea. - Yr easy style
Yr frantic grace
Yr civilized smile
Yr feral waist
Yr face like home
But out of place - Yr high country angles
Yr frivolous fire
Yr name in smoke
Yr shape in wire:
You know all echoes
Are laced with desire. - Yr radical rose
Yr seldom shows
Yr crystal voice
Above the snows
Burnin’ up the walls of Troy - As far away as you are,
As far away am I –
Meet me in the western sky.
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