This poem is better represented in the now available copy of ‘gypsy bars, back alleys and one way streets‘ from Free Penny Press. Download your own copy – link to it on FB and Google+ – tweet it – nominate for various prizes and print copies to hand out to friends and lovers.
you are my own brother
– For MC
you are my own brother.
my AIDS stricken angel.
a heartbreak.
2.
I’ve come to find
I’ve always loved you
and out love flow thick
through shared veins.
could I promise you a rose garden?
or no, a field of daisies and sunflowers.
3.
you cannot help but be beautiful
and lovely
in summer hats
still dancing
under umbrellas in the rain.
– Hoc Scripsi
the platitudes of willful resemblance 
say something