A.M.

Remember the night we drank dreams in Styrofoam coffee-cups?
Stained with the froth of an acoustic guitar were your lychee lips, that night I wore you like a blanket -
the magic stretches
like a rubber band only into the early
morning, and no more -

It had snapped when we smiled at each other sleepily on the other side; ignoring the advice
that you should never use the same pillow twice.

Googoosh

About fragile peace and military repression.

...

Elegance
is in a deep blue shawl draped lightly over light green shoulders. Barely there, like a soldier with a helmet for a face standing by elbows of mountain days drip like cosmetic sweat tracing a crescent-like eyebrow -like cliff roads glimpsed from a split-second car window shards of chandelier light stuck like (fire)flies inside tiny bubbling cauldrons of champagne.

The guardian of your self and dignity shielding eyelashes like drapery:
all important self-important dignity.
Constraining, as you lightly move your white marionette shoulders to a light grace that feeds off of your steady lightening tune, shuffling them to the beat with a cherry-red smile you'll never run out of and this smoky overture to the slow fading fire a modesty that never falters.

...

.

Couple

Sometimes
I kiss you
just
and only
because
I can.

Gibran

Spaces in between:
outstretched fingers like
naked branches of the oak and the cypress, on winter
days,
shivering in quiet hope
of consummation.

Learn to strum lightly:
strings do not touch well, and
an electron derives reason
from separation.

A Separation

Difference
Between us and gods,
Is rubber.

Sing

Twenty years worth
of thread:
unstitch, now.

...

Khul.

Old

Perfect faraway icebergs
of bittersweet stillness;
a river is free from happiness or sadness.

...

Emotion lends itself well
to autopsy.