Patti Masterman Poems

I'll remember how it felt to love you
But try to forget how soon gone, it was;
Taking things, never mine to take,
Right in front of me, it was just because-
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Go ahead, execute me
With those melancholy eyes;
Pierce me through
With your electron sighs-
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Sea-glass eyes
They can take me farther;
The cruise going down through time
To sightless depths we can't fathom.
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Right now you're only a photo, and a distant voice:
But I have your wall's pattern
Committed to long term memory;
I'm sure I will see it in my dreams sometimes.
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The world bends us to its will:
The mountains defy trespass,
Except by man made road.
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There's a voice that sometimes knows the future
It can speak up without warning
Like the colorful fall day we took my grandparents to get groceries
Somehow Grandpa managed to exit the car
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At some point in childhood, if you are female
You will become aware that you have breasts, or that someday you might
And that they are actually mammalian milk squirters
For feeding little mammals; and it might occur to you then
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High up in heaven, alone among his streets of gold,
Sits God, deep in depression, head in his hands.
He sighs and says, if only I could see them,
If only they weren't so tiny; maybe then I could believe-
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The moon owns all women:
We feel it's tautness, as it's pulling us
Into the fertile loam fields, of reproduction,
A year at a time, until high tide finally arrives.
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It may be that you were an astronaut before
And now you clamber unknown chambers of my heart,
Knocking down the tilt-up walls
To find the inner space of your reservoir
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