Muscle Poems

 

(My Wish)

 

“I arise from dreams of thee,

And a spirit in my feet

Hath led me—who knows how?

To thy chamber-window, Sweet!”

            —

Oh, lift me from the grass!

I die, I faint, I fail!

Let thy love in kisses rain

On my lips and eyelids pale.

 

——-  Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

 

 

 

…..and she folded her arms so firmly and tenderly around your neck that you have kept ever since the desire to weep…….

……….you will be forever under the influence of my kiss. Your beauty will be my sort of beauty…….

………the perfumes that disturb the will, and those savage and sensuous animals that are the symbols of such madness………who gives her poisoned breasts to the moon—maddened man.

——– Charles Baudelaire

 

 

For our worries…….. “What has no shadow has no strength to live.” – Czeslaw Milosz

 

 

What I respect—- “He, really crazy, trusted his life to water and eternity. “ —- Olav Hauge

 

 

Oh, I know it fills him with joy

This hard and passionate certainty

That there is nothing he needs,

And nothing I can keep from him. ——–Anna Akhmatova

 

 

You haven’t finished your ape.     ——–Russel Edson

 

 

Dancer, why are you the only one? Do you see you are the music and it’s understanding? What are you doing there quiet? How are you so nice? To look at, for me, forever following your form with mesmerized eyes, you’re an oak tree doing something nice. You be the balmy palm for me and I’ll be the oak. Together we’re rocks. ———Natalie

 

 

Too much poetry gets in the way of my hugging you. ——-Natalie