2.23.2021

half-cerebral, half-sensual

Oh, you bowls, don't tell the others I drink 
my liquor out of you. I want a feeling of beauty 
to surround the plainest facts of my life. 
Sitting on my bare heels, making a formal bow, 
I want an atmosphere of gentleness to drive 
out the squalor of everyday existence 
in a little passive house surrounded 
by black rocks and gray gravel. 
Half-cerebral, half-sensual, I want to hear 
the water murmuring in the kettle 
and to see the spider, green as jade, 
remaining aloof on the wall. 
                                             Heart, unquiet thing, 
I don't want to hate anymore. I want love 
to trample through my arms again. 
 

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