POETRY
Pen and Heart
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Two different versions of the same poem. I’m sensing a pattern of writing emerging . . .
Pen and Heart
My pen is dry; my heart is bare
I spend my days in silence reading
And what you’ve done’s your own affair
Cheever, Woolf, and Baudelaire,
From us your love at last receding.
My pen is dry; my heart is bare
I need no comfort, words or prayer,
Nor your return with eyes of pleading
And what you’ve done’s your own affair.
Do not believe I’m unaware
Of sin, of lure, of longing, needing
My pen is dry; my heart is bare
I have no room for vain despair
Little here for drama’s feeding
And what you’ve done’s your own affair.
No words from me, no lines to share
Nor tale from you I will be heeding.
My pen is dry; my heart is bare
And what you’ve done’s your own affair.
Pen, Heart
I did not write today.
Nothing would come.
Not about you.
Not about
In the silence instead I find
Woolf and Baudelaire better company
More kin
Than any words or prayer
(Than your eyes I do not imagine)
Your business is your own
We all desire, I know
(We all displace, too)
No need to explain it, I think
No need for despair and drama
No need for epics or tales
Not words at all are enough
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