Saint Anthony

Las Manos De Santa Maria

La Pieta

Fuente De Las Raices

Winter Solstice

you red shifting bastard

how did we get here

how did I allow you

me the two of us

to spit into this vortex 

as if seduction were not enough

we parse ourselves too ungenerous to give 

to unaccustomed to receive

my need for the curve of you to call home

my need for your words of love

nothing but contrails and the full moon rises

December

the if onlys crushed after the frost

every leaf will crumble

every rose will crumble at your touch

winter solstice will come alone

and that will be the best of  it

a long time ago my lover and I

hiked through the snow for foxfire

 solstice

solstice again first light

at last

if I said I have lived more lives than you

it would be true

if I said you have fucked more women than me

it would be true

if I said I wanted you to love me

beyond the bounds of reason

because I am alone

it would be true

not enough

even skating the razor of proof

mistletoe is a parasite you know

we find it when the trees lose their leaves

it's true nature revealed

I cannot say but shit we fucked like electrons

in a super collider

orgasms spilling quarks to the universe

apparently that was not enough

for you

Conjugation Vignette

We fuck like amnesiacs

Trying to reclaim ourselves

In the present tense

From an elusive past

Slipping from my grasp

Let me wrap my legs

Around your waist

Let you fuck me

Into the imperfect

Space Time Sestina

Thank You, Catherynne M. Valente
for writing  "13 Ways Of Looking At Space Time"

Space Time Sestina

                                                                                                                            

Only 1 of us is traveling @ a constant rate of speed

Sweetheart, you said, stardust, we are only stellar matter

Left spiraling inward to create our own radiating accretion disk

Saying I love you is a forbidden nonlinear algorithm

Still you pull me toward your infinite density

& I willingly fall into your event horizon

There is no return from an event horizon

I know this, as I glide @ a constant rate of speed

Toward the heart of your infinite density

Finding pieces of myself scattered among stellar matter

The need to be loved calculated by a nonlinear algorithm

Equals even more than the radius of our ever expanding accretion disk

Our impulses acquiesce into a fervent accretion disk

The point of no return, this event horizon

Defined by the square of longing’s nonlinear algorithm

Only I am light moving @ a constant rate of speed

Spinning myself into a spiral of stellar matter

Until I am overcome by your infinite density

As I fall into your black hole, where infinite density

Lies at its heart, gravity, this left spiraling accretion disk

Of love, desire, satiation, denial & floating stellar matter

Inevitably, knowingly I rush the event horizon

My need to live with you @ a constant rate of speed

Overwhelms dissonant variables in our nonlinear logarithm

Our coefficients only aggravate the nonlinear logarithm

Yes, our fucking never failed to achieve infinite density

We orbit each other like Sun & Moon @ a constant rate of speed

Only to trip into our orgasmic accretion disk

Falling into the doom of the event horizon

We created during the fusion of our stellar matter

Returns us to our separate star dust, my stellar matter

Cannot fit into an equation for a nonlinear logarithm 

Must I remain at this event horizon

Or be swallowed unwittingly by your infinite density

Just let me skate on my galactic accretion disk

If I promise to never accelerate @ a constant rate of speed

I am simply gold and star dust, stellar matter seeking to achieve infinite density of the heart

Our variables cannot solve this nonlinear logarithm’s enigmatic accretion disk of desire

Or explain the edge of love’s event horizon, we can never escape @ any constant rate of speed 

Please note that a SESTINA is a poem utilizing repetition of the last words of each of the 6 lines of the 6 stanzas in a pattern and the 3 lines of the envoi also utilize the 6 words in a specific pattern. I chose to create this SESTINA with repeating scientific phrases referring to the Physics of Black Holes and Space Time ENJOY!!!!!

Please Read  Catherynne M. Valente's amazing short works in ClarkesWorld and her wonderful novels.