Ayuda !

Help me, I am dying
my throat is closing and every breathe is laboured
my head is a drug-addled fog & I may not greet the sunrise
tell them I am sorry--I only tried to be human
this line is my exitus, I can encourage them no longer
& they will only smile knowingly on the news of my swift death
only remember the unending hopelessness of my romanticism.

Bucuresti

Bucuresti

Dust, heat and inescapible stickiness
this is what your words surrender
purging the snake oil sellers through your poor
the stuccato clamour echoes down the line
I can almost translate the sounds of madness.

Your bronze and Dacian skin beads
with warm orbs of ambivalence
touchstrokes quiver--[you are safe at a distance]
I can only imagine you & this perfection remains
it is only my reluctance to face reality which preserves you pristine
I acknowledgemy idiocy openly!

Drop Dead Gorgeous

I will remember you as fired by brightly colours
the rainbow's kaleidescope wll evermore be enjoined to you
as my offering to inventiveness and originality
I can only kiss your wrist, head-bowed reverently.

You will always be chameleonic
the infusion of riotous colour will always be your signature tune
just as we shared the cup of satire & carnivalesque
& this fey love of emblazoned endings

Daniela, every word I sprinkle over your hands
is a shower from a painter's palette and a photographer's eye
I pray each sentence will shine phosphorecent
when you and I are detained for not taking life too seriously
so first, let me salute you, and then let us drink.

If I gifted you a bridge in the height of Summer.... would you meet me underneath it?

I offer the sunsetting glimpse of opportunities unsung the bleached white marrow of uncertainty & all the Hungarian wine I have in the larder Oh, and me. I will wait for you under the glow of Szchenyi Hid and watch the circumlocution of traffic pass under the Buda Hills I will scribble the address on a postcard so if you want me, you know which door I lurk behind. -

A Tale of a Train Wreck Foretold

It is it really so unexpected to see this runaway locomotive
lurching toward danger; derailing after a few short weeks
after trundling along the treacherous tracks humans have laid
I would like to be more affirmative; answer you unequivocally
but I fear signal failure.

All the railway can offer you is inconstancy and eye witness reports
of the latest smash--veering cliffward
So these reservations are articulated because
I just cannot see a man and a woman ever coupled in tandem
at the very least you will need patience and fortitude

Isn't it better for you to avoid trains altogether
(It is I who likes them!)
if all I forsee is wreckage and twisted steel strewn trackside
[all my trains collide]
if you careen past this point--all the warning bells and barricades
forgive me if I disavow your imminent derailment
so I implore you:
take the bus!

Pharmacology

This prescription is you
sweet & elicit drug you issue me
Oh, such spendoured side effects
(I have been grinning for days, now).
Bliss straight through my veins
& you have the temerity to express surprise....
This trembling addiction
blessed pharmacology--so I offer you my arms
use me----for medical science &
your most wanton desires.

Halo

Your shimmering crown:
you rule this empire with every swirl of your mouth
this dominion is yours in every insistent finger
it is not often I prostrate myself at altars
alabaster and creamy; the tabernacle of you lit at once
by halo
emitting such light, my only recourse is to look away
the light which seers my eyes and fires my soul.