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For Starlight: cancione
I cannot claim to know her; at best, I’ve mapped the surface: those little nooks and crannies that she feels like revealing. More knowledge would not help me; to understand more deeply, would take a lifetime’s effort and skills beyond my grasping. But what she deigns to show me, that small part I can handle, in just over a decade
has become sun- and moon-rise: my alpha and omega. There is no life without her, no breath, no flowing current; she is my one and only. Continue reading
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Tagged cancione, goddess, Italian verse forms, knowledge, longing, love, poetic forms, Starlight Dances
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Ten Seconds Too Long
Standing in the echo of the last show’s fading note, wondering through the night about the last song that I wrote: the one that drew a line and put me on the other side; was that what we both wanted, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged fights, longing, love, regret, relationships, worry
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You Can Come Home
One winter’s night a number of years ago in Boston, I was huddled in my small studio apartment on Boylston Street near Berklee College of Music. It was a cold December evening, and as I recall I was broke and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged desperation, devotion, loneliness, longing, love, relationships
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So Long (This Time So Long)
I’ll leave the light on outside so you can find your way when you come home tonight I don’t know where you’ve been, but I ain’t asking, I know I don’t have the right Besides, it’s just another passing evening … Continue reading
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Tagged breakups, dishonesty, farewells, longing, love, regret, relationships
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That Reminds Me
It doesn’t take much to remind me: a trace of perfume in the air lipstick stains on a cigarette butt burning there as much as I tell myself that I don’t care no use lingering on these things now that … Continue reading
Blame It On Your Memory
I know it’s late and you told me you don’t want me coming ’round But I was in the neighborhood and on my way downtown Thought you’d like to know I saw your memory yesterday He told me to look … Continue reading
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Tagged longing, love, lust, memories, regret, relationships
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Ginger Freed from Wall Singing
Won’t you me the dance out of reaching your space into nothing close where longing breeds its sorrow armor (amour)? Drum talks your babel tonguing instinct-burnt incessancy; naturalized immortalifications reduced to venial chancery in the cold light of reminder. My … Continue reading
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Tagged dancing, disillusion, distance, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, illusions, longing, love
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