a man should not seem desperate

a man should not seem desperate

but I would write you poems

I would make you laugh

I would cook you food

and read you stories

and  play songs by Joni Mitchell

where everything is blue.

Ships can pass

but I won’t let one pass

that catches.

I will write new poems

maybe in march

as  buds unfold

and winds on beaches

here begin to soften,

grey waters turn blue.

And as you change the face

of summer starting

I dream an end to longing

I look in your eyes

in hope that you are her;

the her I hope can see

inside men who want to look

and wants to meet one.

A her who holds her heavy lust  

In gentle hands and

the strength of her thighs.

A her who wakes the sun in winter

and holds it back from hell,

who carries the wolf howl

in her smile at autumn,

she that knows the tears of men

are wetter than any other water

on the tip of a finger

that kisses a shoulder

lately bitten.

A woman

that wants

to know