Tina

How you hide your pain, while a lover somewhere weeps, closer to the flame, a flicker at your gate, when you try to sleep, lock in your battered gains, like brigands fight the tide, heavy, scarred, ill at ease, silver cups your eyes, do you plan to wait, make your body seep, from sail or distant animate, which might include your flight, coin and notes that crease, always to be right. an arc of scurried waves, a map, some perfume, please, you won't try another way, or merely smile release. u i o birds thrum their tune, scientists of a global nigh, your mother prays to atone, smoking her Camel Lites, just to worry you, kids on yellow block reel regular as the five and dime, she pulls at my traces, the moon is her nosegay it haunts her face, shudder with each wine, think of the next engagement, in the evening gloom, other shipwreck signs, of someone else's purlieu, learn to dance don't get blue, ignore those cool untruths, give me just one more time. what comes to meet you, the decks that grace her due, each sea green evening, she dances on Hawaii, thats what she'd like to do 0, soft a frustrated by home, supped thin by water, she's ready to go alone, tuned/ wound dances free without control, your lips can only croak, on the porch storms flare, moan/ away i your consoling pain, between you and your claims,