Monday, March 21, 2011

Peter Marra - One Poem

Mad Love

your skin’s touch
your hair’s feel
incite desire
excite the night
climb up my
spine

behind my eyes
bone tingle
frisson
fission

when I’m scared
you enter inside
comfort floating
silent smiles

you destroy
my void
fight
my pain
remove
my loneliness

two flaws
inside a diamond
hidden in the ocean
eyes flashing
time collapsing

we’ll hide in
a cape made of night
take up residence
in the upper sky

hide behind
the rotating moon

then travel
silently
safely
home



Peter Marra lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Among his influences are Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Edgar Allan Poe, Russ Meyer, and Roger Corman. He has either been published in or has work forthcoming in Caper Literary Journal, amphibi.us, Yes Poetry, Maintenant 4, Beatnik, Crash, Danse Macabre, Clutching At Straws O Sweet Flowery Roses, Breadcrumb Scabs and Calliope Nerve.

4 comments:

  1. ooooooh....I like this one. Though I am a fan of things dark (and to me your writing teeters in that - not negative - space) this one is sensual and lighter, same vivid sense you write with but the chords are different. Longing and love.
    Nice!

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  2. I agree; I thought this a beautiful & sensual poem!

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  3. Thanks, Leslie. Yes, I often try to balance between light and dark. Sometimes I concentrate on the good things.

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