Rufo
Quintavalle
© Rufo Quintavalle 2009
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Shelf
1.
Itself,
An Amiable
Follow thru.
I’ll
Impress
Matter
Both his and mine
Into a thin
Hopscotch
Carapace
Rewritten
Inside and refilled
Naturally.
2.
Heady
ideas
Interest
The theocrat
This
will be less,
It will start
Its meandering road
In me.
There
is so much:
Eyebrows, stubble,
Manbreasts,
The soft down
That joins balls and
Anus,
The bristling
Thighs and calves,
The belly and the bellybutton.
Had
enough? Hair enough?
Hair of the head,
Hair of the naked toes.
Shoes
are for pussies!
Yet
You wear shoes,
You compromise
Yourself.
3.
I
know where it will end:
Bed.
The
creamy tallow,
Numinous warm glow,
A nervous swallow.
Now.
Undo
me
Adamic word.
Om.
The ever convex
Apple.
The
ego
Submitting
to its
Sensual
Id
Consensual
Like
a man
Turned woman.
Socrates’
advice:
Know yourself.
Why
damn
Not?
It
beats inching
Along the road
Led by
Some other guy’s
Truth toward
A prethought
End.
4.
The
Plan:
To know
More or less
The me
That sweats,
Belches,
Thinks my own
Belief
As
if I am
Solitary
Like that
Little boat
Bobbing in the night.
Bullshit.
I is
In life, of it.
5.
In
it with you
And all the other
Loosely
knit
Numberless seekers that
Oceanic sense
In
uniting
Has made
At once consentient
And apart
Sexual
mesh
A priceless boon,
A way to turn
Away from others
And yet not be
Alone. Leaves
Above us as we dream
Allonged in a unified field.
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Rufo
Quintavalle
© Rufo Quintavalle 2009
Rufo
Quintavalle was born in London and lives in Paris
where he is an assistant editor at the literary
magazine, Upstairs at Duroc. His chapbook, Make
Nothing Happen is published by Oystercatcher
Press and individual poems have appeared in
print and online journals around the world. He
is currently Acting Poetry Editor of Nthposition.
http://oystercatcherpress.com/
http://nthposition.com/
