YOU'RE OUR MAN
(for Leonard Cohen)
you were not handsome—
...
YOU'RE OUR MAN
(for Leonard Cohen)
you were not handsome—
...
A member of Poets & Writers, Inc. and Peformance Poets, L.I. Award winner of, Poetica Magazine and Writer's Digest. Have been published in various journals and read at poetry venues, libraries and Bookstores. Have 3 chapbooks.)
To Know Him Is To Love Him
YOU'RE OUR MAN
(for Leonard Cohen)
you were not handsome—
craggy lines on a face so young
tangled dark hair framing it
and a husky voice
stroking inside a woman's ear
with your tongue
rhymes so slanted—as if you
couldn't quite get it right
yet rhythm caressing every inch
of her with those long, aching fingers
oh, Leonard, so slim, with a guitar
hanging over your bony shoulder
shirt open to show
the curly dark hairs on your chest
you were pure sex…teasing
a woman's body to lie against your naked one
and when you left your Marianne, Suzanne…
and all the others
you did it with such finesse
the body or the mind--I'm not sure which torments the other more
Anxiety City--I've never lived anywhere else
Walking on egg shells is what I learned instead of tap or twirling on my toes