Uneasy Rider

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Falling in love with a mustache
is like saying
you can fall in love with
the way a man polishes his shoes
  which,
  of course,
  is one of the things that turns on 
  my tuned-up engine

  those trim buckled boots

  (I feel like an advertisement 
  for men’s fashions
  when I think of your ankles)

Yeats was hung up with a girl’s beautiful face 

and I find myself

a bad moralist,

a failing aesthetician,

a sad poet,

wanting to touch your arms and feel the muscles 
that make a man’s body have so much substance, 
that makes a woman
lean and yearn in that direction
that makes her melt/ she is a rainy day 
in your presence
the pool of wax under a burning candle 
the foam from a waterfall

You are more beautiful than any Harley-Davidson 
She is the rain,
waits in it for you,
finds blood spotting her legs
from the long ride.

© Diane Wakoski