no escape

1. 

a slowpoke cowboy
rests
against October sunset

2.

in an alternate sunset
she was a pole dancer
he had oily hands
reaching across the stage
behind preying eyes

dreams in a cocoon

3.

I can't go somewhere I've never been
if you don't show me the way
to Paradise at your side.

I can't even begin to tell you my story
if you don't listen with the silence
from which neither of us can hide

I can't see with your eyes
if you don't love with all your heart

You needn't build a bridge if
there is no river between us.

Just this quiet drowning.
Just this tender light.
Just this blue sky.

4.

poems
held
together
by
a
silk
thread