Why are most
men threatened by
intelligence why do
most men do
rather than think
it’s abysmal this
perhaps this is
why most men
pass away earlier
than women do
women are thinkers
men are pigs
rutting and rooting
while the women
are the caretakers
of the children
men included here
Category: Gay
Trees
I wonder if
the trees remember
I wonder if
they ever think
now where’d they
go that they
haven’t been back
whether it’s leaves
or lovers beneath
I wonder if
when I look
upon the trees
if they remember
for I do
I most certainly
do remember them
such are trees
NoMoreSpring
I can’t do love
again I thought maybe
but now I know
I just don’t have
it in me anymore
I never really thought
but now I do
that love comes with
costs that somehow changed
between ordering and eating
and no doggy bags
once over now done
I don’t know if
love bounces back eventually
not maybe with him
not maybe with anyone
I just now think
that I’ll never as
the elasticity of heart
has lost its spring
LetMeThisOnce
Let me paint you
draw you with words
as I remember you
not as you are
a long elegant plank
of deep rich ebony
found deep within tree
hiding there behind others
blemished of course front
and back with two
ivory burls that almost
blink as sun catches
and a velvety hand
which all but cascades
like the rain itself
into the deep pools
of your darkened hips
and what’s found there
disappears into cloudy blackness
but what I remember
most is the warmth
whilst I lay upon
as though your timber
absorbed the sun itself
ImagineAutumn
I imagine you
and us here
having once been
you and us
here well maybe
I imagine many
things such as
an eternal Autumn
one whose colors
last forever whose
chill begs warmth
whose naked limbs
once leaf clothed
now pleads embrace
I imagine many
things including you
and your leaves
and me falling
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 