Come Again: (Improvisation 11 10 2008) Poem by Lee B. Mack

On the runners’s track around Charles Drew field
hung images of nakedness above counter walls that
Bars display instant atmosphere drew off to color
The brew a coffee cream in sight of Baldwin Hall
He looked lustfully to impassion my arouse for him
To come he moved inside my body in air close to
Transcendentally induced…we acquainted sidewalks
Encircling the city reservoir with our talk of murals
Divine sorority and the bleach of time to the west
Heavier rays from the sun’s reddened wines wafted
Below but adrift on lighter clouds that rose pasted
Artist forms contoured un-anointed oils spread…
My legs and painted breast hips thighs my pelvic
Unashamedness.
His laser eyes and mine collide define the matter dark
A tone to feel dancing by uncovered naked trustfulness
Just and stark undraped I fall blind suppressed to shutter
Embraces enfold so many through the photographer’s
Serial exposure to cosmopolitan unrestricted pleasure
Covers over the inner vision of Jet Centerpages
Skin tone cathexis chiseled Nubian bronze
He loss conscious to feel twinges of sural and femoral
Eagerness heightening the smell of radiant fragrances
My bleeding desires would find secret sources
To involuntarily lead to dispel the philter that hallucinates
Exposed all emotes to tell with all my heart so strange a beginning
To end when he left me lust unexplained to never come again
Then he saw as seeing music in the sound that surrounded
The rub that brought us to meet and find ourselves there
In the city called the way from home to find home again
His ambitious lust drowned in the velvet musical sound of
Jessie Belvin songs and the alphabet street names
That set us far apart as strangers in mystery and in aim
Where love and lust were silent to know each others name
Where we surrendered between the times that came and found
Us only then to leave us there to come again unexplained.