THE SEVENTH SEAL HANGOVER

back in the theater
under buttered over salted popcorn

watching ocean waves
crash on screen 

once i read your diary 
turns out you were necking with my enemy 
long before i met you 

kernels cascading down
her healthy form  

erotic envy, hot as possession
or at least the actress 
who acts it

coke in a bottle
finally – a beautiful woman 
lest living in a ghost world 
enclosed by dreams 

if i were possessed
at least my conviction would keep me 
hot     alive     alluring
life would be the search 
for cool waters

oh this my hand 
I move

shadow puppet guffaw 
at world

blackberry branches to protect 
the strawberry beds

in the bathtub i think 
of highschool 

the aikido resolve to solve, not start, 
conflict

go to the tavern, find angels 
hot Greg and Jen who scowls
hashmark shadows, Skims mesh thong

carry memory between your hands 
careful as a bowl of milk

love is the blanket that covers 
the cradle of wolves and bears

love is loons with their poison berry eyes,
a low waist skirt that swings across
all masculine gravitas

love is that no one escapes me 
for i am unknowing
and never cease asking