Crazy

for RH

I wait for the right time
to meet what I know

my heart
the wish to echo

a selective radiation

sonar from this love

you do not know

as you drive me

out of my mind

*

I sit in the hotel room
drink whiskey
read dailies
and start

to find the truth

another love

shifts emptily

I do not know
how to use
all these pillows

as you drive me

out of my mind

*

strums a deep bass

some hand
steady on the last
glass

plays a clear horn

some shadowy shimmer
blinks the eyelight of a pass

comes love

nothing can be done

*

the curve of you
swallows

me

no fog
this evening
no rainstorm

just traffic

compartments

each vehicle
each electric patch

each doorway

each passing haze

each moment together

a pact
in naming
the background

*

today I wait for love to sway
the time in me to the tempo playing

these single words
all I have to say

to this
embrace at the edge of sanity

and remaining heart

a magic hell I know
you also know

and I take aim to tell you
you drive me out of my mind