Monday, October 6, 2014

SEA BREEZE Part One



                                                          for Tamas in Brooklyn


1.
Luxurious antidotes,
                                                phasellus ille,
the sea
                   you mean to float on is
                                                                coterminous
with her affections
                                          (Coney Island, minuit)
midnight, I see it already, the car
she’s driving
                             down Ocean,
the stately Jewish houses,


                                                          then shining
boardwalk full of maybes
and far away the curl of moonlight
on the tenth-night wave
                                                   cresting way out there
the way they do,
                                      where sharks calve and play,
happy hunting, lover,
                                                the stick-shift
never felt so good, staggered green lights,
a car knows how to go,