Patti Masterman Poems

Take beautifulest draughts
Of mellifluous maelstroms;
Let vicissitudes of hands
Enclose euphoric atmospheres
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Out of nothing, came the all,
More potent than just fiery ball
Gave birth to water, air and dust;
For in matter dwells deepest lust:
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Some things demand an answer;
Others, silence:
A husband must have a wife,
To answer to him;
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My words I set to music
In the silence of your soul,
In hopes a heart, to win apart
By the time that we grow old.
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Why ask if love is true, or walks
Clothed with the sun's invention?
Why inquire if a fool can sing
What proves the flower's intention-
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I tremble so violently sometimes
Like someone who's just given birth-
The tide's gone out, and left the sand bar unbalanced.
The images are ripped, torn loose from my raw under belly
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In that other place where we dwell together,
I laugh and touch your hands, your face:
It's true that our two hearts there, tethered
Forget their worries for some brief space.
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Waltz me across the universe
Dance me through time-
Ring the bells: I’m alive
By accident or design.
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God hides in the smallest places:
the carelessly upturned cuff of a sleeve,
the highlight in a lover's eye,
tucked inside the spine of some book,
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questions haunt the waking man,
in the blazing air of morning
his breath the needle piercing blood;
red rhythms of the glass-bored voice of night.
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