Ed Baker
from G OO DNIGHT…
REGARDING WHAT
given what manifests
it
is clear who
does what to whom
is
silence between
give and take more
than
can be
said
Not Knowing Why...Then Goes
into this heat and sacred moment he hears her plainly say: "Do what you want with me."
Want demands other posturing
Now demands silence play is with mind reply is not an understanding of why
set is into his rocks apart from
matters and survival
"no one said it would be easy"
words image
possibility in
her
UNTITLED
ample thighs reveal is also among scrawny day lilies her swing moves heads to eyes eyes to see head hair deliberately flung let out into the open
she
finding that and this and there
nothing solid
to stand on
one foot in mud
stand up straight
tilt head
shake balance
blue sky
reach for
open mouth
only word clearing the bite of
want
here even see
beyond anger feelings
cut¬through steamy
rise
and
sunlit legs
gone
a woman with
long fingers, hands, hair
vine round loss for one word
out
of her mouth her tongue goes into
pull is
between sheets beside the blue pillow
tawny girl a wo man is with
bright is in
I m age i nation
language tells what is meant
he unbuttons summer dress
the one with the
yellow flowers
Ed Baker writes that the above is a reformatting of part of G OO DNIGHT. The complete book, in paper &/or pdf, is available through Moria Books, the original publisher.
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from G OO DNIGHT…
REGARDING WHAT
given what manifests
it
is clear who
does what to whom
is
silence between
give and take more
than
can be
said
Not Knowing Why...Then Goes
into this heat and sacred moment he hears her plainly say: "Do what you want with me."
Want demands other posturing
Now demands silence play is with mind reply is not an understanding of why
set is into his rocks apart from
matters and survival
"no one said it would be easy"
words image
possibility in
her
UNTITLED
ample thighs reveal is also among scrawny day lilies her swing moves heads to eyes eyes to see head hair deliberately flung let out into the open
she
finding that and this and there
nothing solid
to stand on
one foot in mud
stand up straight
tilt head
shake balance
blue sky
reach for
open mouth
only word clearing the bite of
want
here even see
beyond anger feelings
cut¬through steamy
rise
and
sunlit legs
gone
a woman with
long fingers, hands, hair
vine round loss for one word
out
of her mouth her tongue goes into
pull is
between sheets beside the blue pillow
tawny girl a wo man is with
bright is in
I m age i nation
language tells what is meant
he unbuttons summer dress
the one with the
yellow flowers
Ed Baker writes that the above is a reformatting of part of G OO DNIGHT. The complete book, in paper &/or pdf, is available through Moria Books, the original publisher.