Poems by Peacock Molly
Altruism
... but coming to knowsomeone is there through the wavy visionof the self's heat, love become a decision ...
The Cliffs of Mistake
... u anticipate later, which is nowonly the shock of recognizing the resultthere's no leaping back from ...
A Favor of Love
... ommily, closing the cosmic circle begun at breakfast when my husband made the promise I won't reveal ...
Good Girl
... foundyou are nothing but a column, good girl,a temple ruin against a sky held upby forces beyond you ...
Good-bye Hello in the East Village 1993
... o do -- in the world now ours,the century's hours hurtling behindlike snow-wake off an empty dogsled ...
Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?
... our ordinary way, totake pleasure in the new way, lost, not knowinghow to drive it back to sureness ...
I Must Have Learned This Somewhere
... er's handsmust long ago have offered the same balmthough I took her for an operatorholding my string ...
The Lull
... se, the flies, the world, the fact that we weretraipsing in our dress shoes down the railroad tracks ...
My God Why Are You Crying?
... years' emptinesshollowed into a pail-like form which fillswith feeling now felt aloud, that resounds ...
The Spell
... masks meaning, a kind of hXon the alphabet, created to cover Y,not to destroy it, but to make it haZ ...
That Leaf
... s so -- depleted, terrifiedby sudden perspective, the outside brought inside,though it always was so ...
The Vow
... with a shading of your eyesoftening into an injured decision notto inhale again the fumes of society ...
Yes
... ly onemore awful thing that I'll take onand do it all until it's gone,except the thing will never go ...