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stay all morning
stay all morning
in the first light fretting
miles it's eye open & clear
raises the day
the obligation to come &
juxtapose the starling blue
& scatter the starling to the waking world
but stay past that incipient light
beyond the unhinging morning
after the concrete settles
long past instinct after the
clocks have stopped screaming
in the clear hour past transit
stay
in the small cool fire hush
secret & loved in my arms
move back against me
find your place in shadow
on my easy earth
for hours changing positions
like the clockhand change finds a new number
& chimes in joy the hour come like birth
on the wall loving in strict language
or the morning doorway rotates its view
we'll find each other each minute
shifting carelessly far away from the planet
& your breasts
casual in their gait
u offer them
u walk with them
introduce them….
lay with me naked singing
until i want you
& your eyes
what can be said?
u belong to me here
are requisite as breath
my marrow churns
sun burns bright in the floating window
big strong brotha like me says yes
to everything the morning suggests
sistuh furiously
if u can lean
if u possibly can
sistuh sistuh sistuh
stay
but the man things fall away
this poem not from my chest
but is from the smallness in my belly
but is from the longing in my honest hands
no war today
& the torrent of morning
disheveled in the cool bed
your errant hand breathing in bed
an elipse of air & rhythm
your beautiful damp thumb
a small brown bird
a snow of sheets around you
your crazy hair & its residue night
beautiful citizen…..
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