Lamont Palmer - Variations In Yearning

'Dreams are necessary to life.' - Anais Nin


1.
Am I merely another hopeless David,
sending Bathsheba's husband into the thick
of swords? Like the issue of desire,
I am crawling toward light and darkness.
It's more than lascivious steps before dawn.



2.
There, the forest is a manic merger of trees,
like lime-green leaves no one can hear. Sounds the trees
don't emit; battles ingrates never encounter.
End game! Caught now in the lusty morass
of crystallized heat; to the touch, a clear, bright shape.


3.
The heart doesn't care about 'lonely hunters'.
(Excusing McCullers for her moody tropes.)
Its beat is the animal tendency, culled
from music, mercury, and dangerous lights,
like errant eyes watching a canvass of nudes.

Lamont Palmer

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