O say salted Cap’n
As you steered her out nice
Having stolen the helm
Did your first mate fend all for her own
As you bellowed charter
In the galley that eve’
Did your keen eagle eye keep the course
As your senses took leave
Of pirates you perceived
Did you throw your bounty overboard
The long ago
Special effects in stereo sound
Uncertain shadows
Epic, brilliant light
Clinging to a courage chair
Sinew-bending chase scenes
Not-so-tender talk
Having lived the book
There was to come the film
Screened eyes
Peering
What call
Whose melody
Stirred
Thee
Dance now damn you
Do more than search
Sing
Swim
In New York I know
It is an hour later
Here there are souls a swayin’ now
Gliding
To White Rabbit, Creeque Alley
Golden oldie Boomer ilk
Some defiant steps
Of a generation
Keeping me awake
But ill-equipped to face Monday Monday
Find me
Stranger
In your
Saunter
Wherewith deliberate
Speed
No
Sliver
Of glass
No
Shade
Of grey
No
Shadows
Of soft introduction
Shapeshifting
The way
Between us
How
Are you expecting
To round them corners
Wearin’ just that plus nothing
Will
Yourself to rocket
To make it home
Holdin’ just cold, hard steel
Love I’m learning
Is loving aloneness
I’m learning love
You will fade away
It’s just me and I’m sorry
I wanted the whole
You
Over there shaded
In a box blue-green
In the farthest corner now
Flower exact for me or else
A slight tilted wrist
An effort needed to nurture you
Be more than the mind can extend
I remembered yesterday
I’d forgotten you
Today
Help me to know you
To ask you
Let me forget them
Let them forget me
Again
And for good
