furtive muse of the corner eye.
murder my conscience with gospel nude.
birth me robin eggs of violet flash.
within its shell, a pocket tigress to pace.
astrological axioms on shell pink palms.
a map to Atlantis felled, arisen?
though splintered the sky and not the sea.
its history raining from cumolonimbus dreams.
cotton products of an artist's tantrums.
tectonic shake of a lover's wrath.


muse, clandestine your tongue to mine eye.
seer sight awoke the London Beast.
flanks heaving with vagrants forgotten.
nudging cobblestones in rabbana thunder.
pulsing the puddles on abandoned paths.
sprinkled with cadavers of pageant princesses.
skin with hand indentations of charming thieves.
their pouches jangling with ruby hard hearts.
blushing under the night's thousand winks.
the blueprints of a careless spill.


surreptitious, muse your fingers wove.
wrapping flesh in ethereal desire.
contortions of mid-orgasm stun.
your shadow hides the lepers deep.
your sigh oh muse, sends warriors a-shiver.
weathered hands hooked on empty sheaths.
musclebound cupid of red javelin.
armageddon fought with laced valentines.


muse, delusory at best.
devour me, cancerous slow.
your abode these mirrors, ashamed.
to mask the blight
of which they do not know.








--For Lin.