Voices

“Voices Part 1: Letters”

I receive your letters

And manifest complexity

And try and interpret such

As amorous curiosity

And while this must suffice

My preference for thee – would be

To share a cantankerous bottle of wine

And to hold you close to me

But such is not our arrangement

And I am left with but a single choice

To part ways with my pocket change

And call to taste the sugar in your voice

September 2005

“Voices Part 2: I Love to Hear You Smile”

I love to hear you smile

It is a simple kind of pleasure

I love to hear you smile

No matter what the hour

I love to hear you smile                                                                                        

No matter the length or measure

I love to hear you smile

It is a simple kind of pleasure

The corners of your mouth

Rise to tease my tears

The fullness of your lips

Waylay certain fears

The brightening of your eyes

Casts a ubiquitous warmth

The blush of your cheeks

Caresses my heart

I love to hear you smile

It is a simple kind of pleasure

September 2005

“Voices Part 3:  Echoes”

Only the echoes

Of your voice

Soothe my ears

Stringing them

With the torture

Of memory

And the pain

Of our epiphany

Realized

With coded words

Mouthed with telling lips

Bolstered

By a betraying glance

From behind

Your sheltering

Cinnamon hair

September 2005

“Voices 4: Phone Call”

The night is dark and I am staring at the wall

Hoping for just one drunken phone call

From you calling to say hi

(Perhaps high) and in a mood for trouble

Your words an elixir of nectar

Filling my lonely ears with sweetness

Asking simple questions

Parlaying seemingly simple statements

That play to my desires

            My hands reaching back

            Through space

            To stoke your fire

            One night

As I stare at a wall

Waiting, hoping

For just one drunken phone call

(in the dark)

May 2006