Shalimar

God put his finger on my sacrum

and he lifted me, he set me

in the center of the universe,

the curious desire

of my chronically lonely life.

It was cold and dark and lonely

and I was scared.

There were no accessories.

I burst into tears over nothing.

What would Jimmy Schuyler do?

wwjsd?

And as quietly as the sound of Kleenex

being pulled from a box,

I sneezed.

And morning, that goddess,

as if she were slightly deaf,

barely lifted her head off the horizon

before laying back down.

And a rose opened her portals

and the scent ran up an elephant’s trunk,

or tried to.

Such a long way for everything to travel!

From here I look like a front moving in

An icy purple light

a poet would say belonged to a perfume stopper

belonging to his mother.

When it was her nipple.

You know, neither in the past

or in the future.