The September Sonnets: II

ONE

the sound and chaos
coming from your thund’rous hands
leaves me wondering

TWO

when words collide so
madly the fury expands
like toxic rivers

THREE

when salmon travel
to spawning grounds they fear your
fingers’ underlings

FOUR

when verses conjure
memories of inflection
bones fill with shivers

FIVE

muscle instinct is
such a tremendous deathbed
on which tempting rests

SIX

alone is sickly
when passions intercept logic
and toss it away

SEVEN

my fingers now clench
mangos in madness but still
as they did your breasts

EIGHT

my knuckles crinkle
and grind themselves to the bone
as clouds above sway

NINE

stellar swirls above
tell us its time for goodnight
but i’m not weary

TEN

shadows in windows
haunt my boyhood as the streets
close the deadly gap

ELEVEN

when suitors come to
take your hand in September
i recall fury

TWELVE

i shall break the trees
under which we lied kissing
and bleed out the sap

THIRTEEN

the multitude weeps
for sugar fresh from the cane
but its mouth stays dry

FOURTEEN

the significance
of such unquenchable thirst
leaves such things to die

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