When Love's Liqueur

When love’s liqueur has just been quaffed and drained,
And your sweet flesh lies pressed against my own,
That blessed moment lingering, yet unwaned,
Thy presence filling, soothing, to the bone,

Then all the world and all its pains and woe
Dissolve until there’s nothing but thy touch,
And time, no longer passing, swift or slow,
Gets tossed away like some unneeded crutch.

Senses having stretched the bounds of being,
Mind unmoored to float and rise aloft,
Eyelids much too heavy to be seeing,
Skin so unimaginably soft:

Age-old wine in casks completely new,
My universe completely fills with you.

New Poems

• "Battle Hymn of the Republic, Indeed"
• "Ode to a Banana"
• "Moving on After 1/6"
• "Hug"
• "Map-less Monarchs"
• "I am Such a Rich Man"
• "Beatitude with Attitude"
• "The Cross and the Lynching Tree Rap"
• "The Nudist Nun"
• "Sonnet 19"
• "Reparations Now"
• "Hoping I'm Wrong"
• "Bird Feeder"
• "Pete and Henry"
• "Nero: A Rap for Republicans"
• "Croissant"
• "Mandela"
• "The New Jim Crow"
• "The Wire"
• "Why Socialism?"

From By Heart

• "Ahiti"
• "As Some Fertile Seed"
• "Greed Screed"
• "I Sing the Ass"
• "Lying Lost Among Your Arms"
• "Now Thou Art Two and Twenty"
• "Sweet Smellin Woman"
• "This World"
• "Train Wreck"
• "Truth and Parable"
• "Why This Itch This Yen"
• "You"

Some Earlier Poems

• "Al and Bob"
• "The Lonely Puddle"
• "Ode to a Bagel"
• "The Rose"
• "Sardinia"
• "When Love's Liqueur"

Audio Recordings

• "Abu Ghraib"
• "Things About Kings"