this Monday afternoon, love with extreme
alarm, like a speeding fuel truck chasing
passion. Love with intense fear, lover’s scream
piercing air, inaudible waves racing
at heights only dogs hear, igniting howls
of discontent. Love so formidable
in nature storm clouds form angry mobs, jowls
of mad gods swelling with rage, unable
to quell this ancient rebellion of man.
Love strongly repulsive, melting biceps
to lava, tongues to trickling streams, stout hands
to limp latex strings. Tell me what precept
will alter chaos, extinguish desire.
Night beckons. Beds crackle from spreading fire.
Roger Armbrust
January 27,
2014
