Johnny Noir Poems

Skin white as bone, bone thin as skin,
Don’t want to be just another skin to be in
Just like St. Augustine,
Leave her to her diet she’ll try anything,
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One day I awoke from a dream
Wherein the world was asleep,
No one was beside me,
I wasn’t in bed, but on the subway
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Red balls dropp like riddles from the sky,
The glowering green gnome whose face is naught,
The thought too severe,
God likes it this way, she said—
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If I should arrive with the fiery sunrise
Would you stay with me through the night?
And when the truth comes alive like a contented suckling child,
Would you bite me through the heart if I ask you to?
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There are drums along the Congo
And violins in my head,
The wild women of Wongo are dancing
In eyeliner and war paint
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Masters of hate, you don’t know where you stand,
You oppose evil but not the evil of man—
You wait until darkness and then you strike,
Lighting the bomb that destroys the light—
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Your' stocking tops & black seams
Seem to be the only thing I think about,
Why must it be that way?
Why can’t I get you out of my mind?
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When I walk through the Black Forest with you
A Wonderland of smells surrounds me like your dog in the mud
And if I could track mud all over your carpet I would—
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Yellow country of red skulls in night’s delight—
Cherished and beholden to the one beloved,
Ice flows down from the mountain mist
And settles disbelieving—
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The bride wore knee sox.
Kissing the ground her mother walked on,
Taking me back in time to a place
Like no other I’ve ever seen before—
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