I take an empty Coke bottle
and refill it with tap water
Overnight it acquires
fizz and flavour and caffeine
but not colour
Puzzled, I check the label
or, as I like to think of it,
the alchemical spell
Fine, everything's OK
must be my imagination
~ ~ ~
I Must Have Wandered All Over You
thrown you and caught you
felt you come like a ballerina
felt you come like crucified jesus
wandered all over you like a homeless beggar
like evil to know you from toes to crown
Every day of you
in light and dark
to want you possess you
get under all that is not you
contort you
get so engrained
like love is hunger
a need, further in than skin