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spying on your love

  on naked hands

  as they move to touch her

  and make her over

  another woman

  marked by the embrace

  of a man

  known to leave scars

  33.

  to cut

  and cut

  the heart

  another weapon

  i can use

  its pointed sharp edge

  the very tip of desire

  pierces you

  brings you to the

  ecstatic red of the cut

  and the blood

  that is love’s last moment

  to tarry and sup together

  in remembrance

  34.

  bring me angels

  to keep away hurt

  shield and solace

  offer divine sanctuary

  in love there

  is no need to find

  a hiding place

  and when beloved

  you come again

  i will know your face

  and speak your name

  35.

  saint antonio

  oh you who are able

  to bring back the lost

  i beseech you

  he was the only body

  i could ever love

  like a brother he was to me

  he would kiss me

  tenderly touch braided hair

  and let me put my ear

  close to the place

  where no heart beats

  and there is only the sound

  of a closing door

  in that place where memory forgets

  so there can be no more pain

  kneeling with all that remains

  left precious and whole

  sweet flesh in my mouth

  where i call to jesus

  and he comes to me

  to guard us here

  as we search in the dark place

  for you beloved

  who are able

  to bring back the lost

  36.

  love if you were

  a reader of hearts

  you would know

  such longing

  must never speak

  or seek a listening here

  where he takes my hand

  and i am not ready to be

  born a child again

  not ready to forget

  there is no death

  not now

  all sweetness gone

  the hard heart still

  and charming allure

  all eager to speak

  to my heart

  to talk its way back in

  here let me hurt you

  with my sight

  hold out your hands

  the future tells me

  everything is always lost

  there is nothing

  only departure and ending

  it is best to stay silent

  and keep away

  37.

  love

  looked down on

  belittled judged

  and unable to bear

  the heart’s weight

  can never last

  for time will make it

  tired and worn

  it will grow hard

  rage will

  overcome desire

  and we will forget

  what it was like

  to know each other

  without eyes and testimony

  38.

  sweet sacrifice

  a finger in each mouth

  to carry away all praise

  i have had to offer

  body parts

  to let go hands that solace

  eyes that hold her

  captive heart

  with just one look

  to let go touch

  render strange

  and unfamiliar

  this killing passion

  39.

  empty now

  the red chair

  where i sit

  to write of love

  no naked body easing down

  opening hard

  in this rocking of

  our bodies

  as we join

  and move again

  breast to breast

  i face your hunger

  wet and in need

  we came here always

  to this meeting place

  where now there is only

  silence quiet breathing

  and the sound of

  words moving against words

  40.

  if true love died

  before we ever had

  a chance to see

  what it would be

  if we were really free

  to make promises

  and speak the heart

  then we would not need

  to be sent grace

  in innocent flesh

  or given sacrifice

  i leave a bit of my heart

  on this altar

  flesh to take home

  naked and young

  the way we would have been

  i leave a taste of mystery

  of love undeclared

  let him

  eat away grief

  41.

  when angels speak of love

  they tell us

  all is union and reunion

  dying reborn again

  there is no separation

  no end to paradise

  we are always present

  the ecstatic moving us

  along each current

  each wilderness of spirit

  a dedicated path

  42.

  ever dark prince

  yearns with all the

  passion of the cross

  sanctified satanic wish

  to seduce and sacrifice

  love’s innocence

  making it serve flesh

  kneeling at the phallic altar

  drinking in the seed of

  his revenge

  43.

  how hard

  and sweet

  this taste of flesh

  enchanting

  chameleon

  seductive trace

  tenderly taken love

  the snake

  guarding

  the palace of bliss

  to enter

  there is only

  one open door

  44.

  outside

  in the passage

  between life and death

  love waits

  counts in unrecorded rhythm

  hours minutes

  each moment matters

  speak now my heart

  say when how

  which way

  only now

  before time is no more

  45.

  i gave my heart

  and in return

  a heart is given

  no lasting body

  no definite trace

  strangers kneel

  in the same temple of love

  i thought my heart

  alone belonged

  connect the unfamiliar

  claim mystery

  in deep history

  heaven’s new frontier

  my own and

  not my own

  46.

  love

  should not come

  in such a way

  i cannot know

  the heart’s yearning

  i dreamed a prince

  a frog destiny

  everything alchemically

  turning

  into pure gold

  love

  should not defy desire

  make me over

  flesh

  make me ready

  kill the illusion

  let truth submit

  and every sacred vow

  hold fast

  47.

  eve
ry dark prince

  courts me with words

  tames the imagination

  puts his tongue

  in my mouth

  speaks tenderly

  to my heart

  to love left lonely

  uncovers secrets

  becomes the interpreter

  of desire

  seduces my soul

  with each narrative of surrender

  48.

  every prince

  in the book

  of love

  journeys

  from a faraway

  dark place

  finds an angel

  of mercy

  to shelter and shield

  him from pain

  he enters my dreams

  tells me

  i can find my true desire

  if i follow

  the heart’s labyrinth

  show naked courage

  and a will to give all

  yet when we meet

  and i have finally

  come home

  he is already

  leaving

  already mapping his return

  to the land

  where the royal one

  sleeps alone in a place

  without light

  49.

  once

  only men

  could become

  angels

  offering the promise

  of divine love and

  eternal bliss

  then one by one

  they fell from grace

  seduced by death’s allure

  boldly they surrendered

  the promise of paradise

  claiming pain as their

  one true passion

  and their only home

  the heart forsaken

  found in woman

  a place to love again

  to dream anew

  the angelic to herald

  the coming of a new world

  a new vision

  50.

  a heady heavy love

  speaks my yearning

  calls me

  to give my all

  and seek the place

  of no return

  to lay bare my heart

  for you

  to whom i surrender

  to you

  for whom i wait