Sunday, October 16, 2011

weekly poem...

An Exercise in Love

for Jackson Allen


My friend wears my scarf at his waist
I give him moonstones
He gives me shell & seaweeds
He comes from a distant city & I meet him
We will plant eggplants & celery together
He weaves me cloth


Many have brought the gifts
I use for his pleasure
silk, & green hills
& heron the color of dawn


My friend walks soft as a weaving on the wind
He backlights my dreams
He has built altars beside my bed
I awake in the smell of his hair & cannot remember
his name, or my own.
Diane di Prima

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