Charles Bukowski one of his last readings in 1980
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knives sweeter than arrows
flesh of silk and snow
naked as a fawn exposed to winter,
draft seeped through window
that cast a lemon block outside,
pages before her with ink that began
to merge,
precious silent thoughts
lifted to starry skies,
sorrow had not brought it’s shadow
her eyes strong enough to look into
the fire and show innocence,
telephone rang
the artist whose heart moved in spirals
waited with canvas and sable
and when snow retreats
and fireflies waken
she would stir to his caress,
till then entwined with knowledge
of youth and biology
lessons planned for each week
distraction long holding
avoidance to all things carnal
despite prick of skin
and clamor of heart,
she would wait as others too waited
and beneath soft auburn hair
decisions would be made
Jamie Wyeth Monhegan’s Schoolteacher
Beyond Caring
deep silence
audible in the calm,
lit by blood
made from skin,
love a human industry,
his intentional face
written with what
only darkest nights bring,
she reflected what he saw
and had her own
flickering gleam,
restaurant a stage
on which they now played,
a filmy invitation glowed
the mellow strained juices
of calm
thickened by shudder of
her lips,
ecstasies spell knotted
by one kiss,
doubt a pain long gone,
she would know the
hungering weight
and he the feverous
unbound liberty
Joseph Lorusso
Portrait of Things
a handful of ocean
to replace the tears,
that stung razor cut aqueous humor
pressured by fluid on cheeks
and tasted at corners of mouth,
in her protective nest
among the rushes society grew,
her temptation an anchor
buried in water and weeds
souring by the day,
soiled tongue darkened by
language and apprehensive pain
of words that can hurt,
she had left him behind
the one who became a shadow,
yet her cleft had known his
two fingers
and tobacco kiss ,
rising up on tidal swell
she placed herself away
into the corner
until he had definitely gone,
the powder of air
would fall and settle,
and finding strength
climb from nest
onto another’s cotton shoulders
and exaggerate her heart
artist ; Isabelle Rolles
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