James McLain Poems

You always looked away.
I never thought to see you all laid out.
Dressed like that the town shoud weep.
How I thought your lips now closed apart.
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Deep is the root of the tree.
It does not reach in there by the frost.
The Spelling of it.
Has it not been by you broken.
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Full thick and endowed.
Comes here every day without reason.
A certain man
that she has called.
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and full moon and trees
leafy bushes
paths and streams
long vines the owl
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I am lost without you.
You all though and did I.
How ever bright the season it was.
What has passed and what is to come?
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Disorder grows in the public gardens.
Double shadows on the walls come together.
Tonight opens the song.
I sweat from the training.
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Ardently the mouth to brain crossed impulse.
It is not from other things to thus upon I force.
That which we want,
we want it now because we want to know we live.
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Dean Martin when the eddy was flowing laughing was coming.
Feelings of, the rat pack is good.
Sammy,
there was something even then, very Joey.
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Cowards do it to you and you do it to.
Look through the window thats tightly closed.
Well I, if you will confess to it what it is that you do.
Why does the woman never get caught.
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Having to go out, I did.
Water murky the top covered in white caps.
Tough woman I like as well.
Never the less after reaching the buoys.
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