Light and Grief

Lights here cost $3000.They are made of art-so we watch SBS

MARIA FULL OF GRACE
Columbian drug mule.Pregnant.Watches her friend die
Was it white powder condom broke within her?
or the idea of freedom in full flight?

MADAME SATO
True story of Rio De Janiero bisexual mulatto
whose costumes won Carnival
Whose jail terms punctuated his life

FOR SHEILA(who made a difference)
Everyone who knew you
was affected by you/beaming bright
through personal tragedies/your daughter dying
divorce/now death
stealing away a life force that none can replace
This is an eulogy.Paen of praise for your rightness
Thank you for every moment shared with we poets

BANK OF GRIEF
has liquidity(of teardrops
Withdraw as events arise
Deposit new tears as life allows
Unexpected as burglars
cat grief is shock and loss
Death,pain,operations,friends(gone
and then the unexpected..
Always naked in this world-
storms,tsunami,floods,hurricanes?
Tears rise up like tidal waves
Bank upon this happening again
Surf emotional rises and fall
tears dissolve words,
all we can do is...