Sunday, December 11, 2005

I
Eyes half lidded,
hot tea too sweet,
I write too late in a
drugged out stupor
from too much sleep
of midday napping
and the recollection
of dreams too real;
flesh and moonlight.

I swear
the flesh -
palpable,
tactile -
I could

feel

the warmth and passion,
shivering from loss
as I awoke in a cold sweat...

fever again, so tired...

II
This way comes one
in glorious valor slain
to the halls of Valhalla
looking for the ferryman
to take him yonder.

I am not the ferryman.
but Valhalla’s distant shore.