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Collected Poetry

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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  Eager Love


When we were young our skin was brown
and made special by place and a tension
clearly empowered with the abundance of
now—a staunch ally of the young and breathless.

Made special by this place and tension
this rain must be the carnal pleasure of
now—a staunch ally of the young and breathless—
even though your heart bobs like a buoy.

This rain must be a carnal pleasure
as I can feel it reaching toward my loins
even though your heart drifts like a buoy
to uncover that which remains its moor.

I can feel it reaching toward my loins
as I want you to want me.  I want us
to discover that which remains our moor
and to appear content.  It is a courtesy

to want you to want me.  I want us
to let it not be considered otherwise
and to appear content.  It is a courtesy
that I disrobe before you and wait

and not let it be considered otherwise:
a pleasant dimness precedes the consummation—
I disrobe before you and wait, humming
a quiet tune that carries no notion

of the pleasantness dimming our consummation.
When we were young and our skin was brown
we hummed a quiet tune that carried no notion
of how clearly we were empowered with abundance.



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