words of a people aligned in their perfect order
Holiday Inn
lights steady, turned on
at next doors busy restaurant
making midnight an artificial dawn
transients sleeping or trying
back turned while
we, looking out hotel window,
eyes wide
in uncomfortable bed
used by thousands.
N.C. 4-30-2011
– Hoc Scripsi
58
58°F
too cold to run naked down the street
waving arms and shouting
looking now, out the window,
bearded old lover.
glancing past the fallen leaves,
children’s play things
to lovers new, now forgotten
like metamorphosis read in early
collegiate days, studying the
swan and Leda,
before the tempest
searching back over the certain memories
when everyone drowned.
or further back to children poetry
in Sunday school where
first crushed on a thirty-year-old
unmarried virgin, venerean fantasies
not understood by the prodigious youth
that still caressed stuffed bears
and elephants with bells in the ear.
laying back, falling back
into cushioned chair under
lampshade stained with yellow light,
muted reminder,
long ago
put away like infirm aspirations.
– Hoc Scripsi
depending on who you ask
150,000 – 165,000 deaths on Sept, 11 2001
less than 10,000 by violent hands.
a mother watches her child dying
wont of only gardened food or grains stocked and rotting in US silos
A husband watches his wife, unable to cope or help
or feed or clothe
wont of only a medicine produced in mass but patented
a brother holds a brother…
a sister holds a sister…
they group together for warmth or shade from an unforgiving sun
all 150-165,000 of them are sons and daughters
brother and sisters
in time, space
50,000 under 5 years never knowing their first love
-Hoc Scripsi
I prefer an easterly sun before I go to bed.
I prefer a smashed finger before a project is finished.
I prefer coffee hot.
I prefer sex sweaty.
I prefer a major fourth under a sharp sixth.
I prefer to lie on my back in the gutter, looking out to the stars.
Cassiopeia
Ophiuchus
Ursa minor
these are things of dreams and sailor visions
– Hoc scripsi
the platitudes of willful resemblance 