Alive

And then this
why oh why
do its fingers
find the strings
and though delicately
still somehow pluck
and I’m played
a little bit
out of tune
but still the
same old song
and my body
feels the haunting
vibrations of longing
deep and dark
and somewhere inside
it warming me
knowing I’m alive

Wash

What’s left 
of you
hides in
the hamper
picked up
and put
waiting to
be washed
when again
at last
it will
be fresh
to once
again hide
your body
from eyes
never meant
to see

Swing

I wonder then 
if when I
you do too
or if when
you do see
a sandlot swing
you remember pushing
me to dizzying
heights higher so
to touch sky
or if like
I do when
I go by

Other

I wrote you 
and going back
I’ve wondered why
was it to
keep you after
or was it
to create you
in a way
that I wanted
you said once
that I wrote
you in ways
that were better
than you are
you were right
then all along
and I Giuseppe
built you up
into something other

Piano

When I hear
that lilting chord
and those notes
floating so high
it’s your giggle
roll over turn
like some sausage
off a plate
out from under
and onto floor
and the glee
of the silliness
as I reached
down and hoisted
like a fisherman
hauling in net