Sunday, December 20, 2020

the letter

greenback morning 
the pane is roaring
have a word w the phone
a cigarette to wake the blue rise

west and fairbank a 
piper at the gate 
please write if you can 
i do like the mean look in your mind

carrion men at the 5am stand
wait in fedoras and cinder silk ties
gaucho one in them
move to shake your hand 
grace keep you in the white of his blind eye

temples ten stories pillage the dories that 
syphon tall tales back from the skies
dragged and beaten 
some shark that cheated 
slips into the dark again wearing a smile

let the two lights 
of los cruces you find
nightly be shown from its good side
as the girl at the bridge 
burning both ends
the owls swear they found christ in her lies

screaming his bowls
hounding of hounds 
I heard one hang once stripped to the chin
in life a mother 
saint of a stalker 
death wings like no other no friend

bloodlet the coward
w a cold lupin arbor
let your dreams knife arteries and stain the last mile
find waters still solemn 
w stones at the bottom 
w loves beneath those beyond where or when

let whats tenderly sewn 
at the lip of a rhone
rip tailors ride sailors crossing the sea
and monday morning 
i wont be calling
but the main is alive 
and i love you, i love you my child goodnight.