Showing posts with label cheating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheating. Show all posts

12/31/15

PARABLE OF FAITH - Louise Glück

Now, in twilight, on the palace steps
the king asks forgiveness of his lady.

He is not
duplicitous; he has tried to be
true to the moment; is there another way of being
true to the self?

The lady
hides her face, somewhat
assisted by the shadows. She weeps
for her past; when one has a secret life,
one's tears are never explained.

Yet gladly would the king bear
the grief of his lady: his
is the generous heart,
in pain as in joy.

Do you know
what forgiveness means? It means
the world has sinned, the world
must be pardoned—

12/11/15

I Feel Safe When You Lie - Derrick Brown

In somno securitas.

She slid into bed
easy as a knitting needle
into the spine of a hare.

I threw a bag of chalk into the air
across her body
while she slept.

Little rabbit.

I lit black lights into action
watched the frenzied prints emerge
from her breasts, neck, and thighs,
souvenirs of desire.

I breathed across her tight, sand-tanned stomach.
Chalk dust blew into her nose and she awoke.

I asked her
If the man made love to her with all his might?
Did it feel the same?
Did his beads of sweat fall upon the necklace I worked for?
Did he extend the milky antennae of her legs into the air?
Did you tune in God on the meat hook channel?

She said:
“My dear.
Slow, jealous detective,
Come sleep by me.
These prints are yours
And always yours.
They simply will not wash away.
You have had your head in other people’s hands for so long
you forget what your own touch looked like.”

The faders of twilight approached.
I curled into her with my arms,
dead across her ribs,
feeling the rate of her heartbeat increase
as she wonders if I can feel a lie through her nightgown.

It is a feeling I get
when ice-skating through the rising crackles of sunshine.

In sleep, there is safety.