2-11-2008
By: Domenic Maltempi
1.
One day that child comes back to get to know you
Get to know
get to know me?
How does that go?
What do you look at in the morning
after this and that
is complete?
incomplete
May I
see
your scrapbook daddy?
little honey in the gimlet eye
knows the puissant ways of real love will annihilate love
striated with panic, pain, anger, fear
That much prediction I might pinkie swear to you
Urgent joke
small joke
confetti stuffed mouth
You might be doing pull ups
using a precarious looking garage door
a little sweat mocks your lip
2.
It was never something else with love stringing it together
Filaments crossed in tender lift
semblance dragged out of our way
no satisfaction in that
3. Some drenched white bakery box
Ferried to all the congratulation
Parties
Hello! RAZZZZOOOO!
4.
Knowing began along time ago
No ancient head itch clubbed towards
Heaven bumped cartoon lump
bird
dressed fine
How old now?
No…not that!
I picked you up in morning
Drowsy sweet warm thing
But it was always again NOW…
then!
how old?
please…stop that now
Serious, please
I’m not some freak
Make all the coffee in the world
But I’ll see you in a second
Complimenting some polymath of a pretend dragon
confessing to an overdone
Philly in beads
5.
Way before you came back
If that’s what you call it
…who?
We knew each other better after
After we had to part…
had to?
Of course
But what’s all that?
Missing, parting, dousing, clawing,
Fly every day wings!
weightless mass icing its ascent’s trail
what’s all that?
Was it any different then
watching you sleeping that night in February?
Passed out in mother’s arms
Watching each step up you went
Just you
Head on shoulder
shutdown
face
body shut down so…so…beautifully
pull-pull
into what leaping fires to keep this?
but up we will still go
head on shoulder
feigning sleep
I’m there again
and now