1. Modern Love
Skirt that line like a ballet-toed athlete that
dark/light line between love and usury
the line overflows its banks, the tide of words seeks
a more copious mode
Somewhere in the drowning something grows
something blooms something dies
A more perfect love resurrects
2. China Girl
Fragility is complex
I am toughened by love, weakened by fragility
don't we seek a more copious love?
3. Let's Dance
So many lands, so many dances
When borders bisect, when it breaks down and
gives it up for love, those ballet toes break like
breadsticks.
The dance is thus reinvented
The dance has to be continuously reinvented
With you, partnership crossed with animus does not equal pride
I refuse to concede the lead
4. Without You
... the world is more clear but less sane
... I am toughened by clarity, weakened by sanity
... the crooked healing of broken bones resets borders and re-invents
perfection
... love and art do not bisect
5. Ricochet
Bounce from one to another and back again and gone for an acid bath of
dialectical degree
open a wound that still bleeds through its own scar
the stitching is artful but acid leaves a statin that spreads its own breed
6. Criminal World
When it's chemical, no argument will be sustained
Oppositional borders repel and horns lock into a puzzle of miscut
pieces
What's criminal here is not the intersection of being and belonging,
it's the loopholes in between that catch my ankle like a noose
there is no justice in love
no rehabilitation of the malice the infection in the bloodscarred wounds
7. Cat People
Balletic, with jaguar grace, is the way to walk
Athletic, with liminal face is the way to talk
Inventive, with criminal flare is the way to love
Love has to be reinvented
Love has to be continuously reinvented
8. Shake It
I am shaken, nervous from the fall, you reglue pieces that should stay shattered
Is our perfect love a resurrection or a reconstruction?
Two Frankenstein hearts like ours are nothing but restitched pieces which may or may
not link
but what else is there to use if interest is to be drawn?
Back and forth from dark to light, the line forever shifts.
