T. Kilgore Splake






ghost in the mirror



early morning pale light, shadows
disappearing, bright lumensense slowly
creeping, covering quilt, pillow bedroom
corners,

greybeard lover drifting, quitely dreamy
intoxication, sweet woman in love aromas,
electricity, naked spine curving embrace,

shrunken testicles bled dry, wrinkled
skinny bag, loose wet dribble ooze, old man
sudden sadness, reminded impossibility only
one life,

young woman, bathroom mirror reflection,
cupping plump breast, caressing pink nipple,
darker cerise areola,

momentarily lost in relentless tides,
lives, pilish ancestor's past dreaming of
beyond, leaving only world they knew,

continuous bloody rush carrying ovum,
sperm, birthing life, aborted fetus, sweat,
tears, flooding,

sunday vision, little girl pinkness like
baltic coral shell, vistual seashore holiday,
late spring blossom, dwor maz picnic,

early summer respite, keilbasas roasting,
pieogis simmering, brief pause in marzukas,
music and dancing, tawny distant sister, hair
golden as later autumn harvest.



LAST TROUT ODYSSEY



greybeard anger dumping creel, sleek
silver bodies of life diving, icy stream
depths, nightcrawlers jettisoned,

adieu trouting trysts, hosing body
down, "off" repelling black fly, misquito
clouds, hiking distant wilderness corners,
chasing beauty,

steady returning steps, searching sight
of pickup roof through tag alder thickets,
dusty two-tire logging trail's end,

like pilgrim, sight of chartres cathedral
spires, another day's journey "beautitude"
uring forward, forward, yet, leaving memories
behind,

young lady loves, wetness, wild poetry
la dolce vita shadow sadly waving goodbye,
girl across sandy peninsula growing smaller.




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