Evening Heat

In the Evening Heat
under sweat clinging sheets
with a mini-blind
moonlight shower,
I sleep...

Interval sleep,
first light then deep,
I am awakened by a small boy's grinding teeth,
and the passing regret that in the summertime,
all the babies sleep with blackened feet.

For there are no rules about socks and shoes
on a sidewalk playground Summer beat
the blues of mid-July,
come August all rules fly

I am the Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
of whom the prophet Dylan
says will have no man,
and I sleep spread eagle and I don't care
about beauty come morning
my smell or my hair.

And yes, I have loved as deep as my depth.
And then I have seen every love affair's death.
But I keep the faith and I do pray yet,
that I don't sleep alone too much longer,
because,

In the Evening Heat
smoldering asphalt cools,
to make way for geranium kisses,
strawberry jewels,
glowing in a trellised flower bed,
softly lit by a porch light
60 Watt overhead,
This lady's phony false alarm to
ward off the serial killers that charm,
when either the moon is full
or the heat wave persists,
under ceiling fan dreams
spinning Tea Party Madness
while bedroom windows
flirtingly beckon,

"Come hither..."

In the evening heat
I dream
in my dreams you and I
are sitting high on the bluffside
my wrist was tied to yours at the cliff's edge
we'd flick our cigarettes to arc up then down
embers spiraling into electric
fluorescence crashing forward
in a night when edges
are left to fate
our footing at heaven's gate

at dawn a pod of dolphins
calling to us from far below
you made it look! the light!
seagulls laugh

and the whole world is with us
in the dark of thee most divine night
waiting for the savior that dawn of light
heads bowed and giving thanks
because demon passing thru
were never this behaved
but the
Righteous and
the Innocent and
the Sad Eyed are saved,
as the danger hour passes
and the Lowlands are bathed
in the Blue Light,

The promise we'll
open eyes to sun scathe,
mini-blinded by the light
of just one more
mid-July day, 

Blinded

by the Light...




Awake.

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