Seeker Magazine

Selected Poems

by Gary Kane



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From The Balcony Desert Tides



She ran
     her autumn hand
across the ashes
     of his rusty flames
adding to
     the million etchings
of mapping fingerprints
     and meatlike nightmares.

He fell
    beneath the
       weighted mortgage
          of her wordy smile,
transcended through
    thin glass clouds,
into the
    flat, kneeling breath
of difficult sighs
       and blinking love.
Dreaming of
     the phantom
       pillow
and the painted
     echo
  that dies
     upon opened
             palms
and silences
      the ease
    from fence to tomb.


Melancholy Slither


Between these walls
     carcasses
          of interest
          and intent
             lay
     neatly netted
          in corners
     chewing on chips
         of nicotine
              white dreams
While the rigorous
     laughter
         of alone
   basks in
        the anemic rays
     that puncture
         through
     the gray-skinned
         windows
   and touch down
      with cleaver ambiance
   only to drown
       with no last words
    and no disguise
And night
   dresses the world
        in ink
   and pulls
        the covers
          over
        the shadows
   and feeds
        its brood
     with chalk
      and wet sighs
leaving
   footprints
        on
       water
   for me
       to follow
   to the
       spontaneous
            awareness
       of breath
            and eyes.


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