wilder kathleen, michael larrain, write this, pretend genius

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emmer effer

a pretend genius broadsuction

some days are better than none

for Wilder Kathleen

Quiet

In the hours before dawn

our bodies are drinking stored-up light

and reassembling it as water

So do all memories begin

Upon awakening

the rippling flanks of horses

pass across your face

taking the form of day

Pleasing the Mangoes

Are you willing to hot-wire my rearview mirror

by touching up your lipstick in it

so I may leave it as a business card?

I'm weary of traveling

merely by watching you stand still

Voyeuraging,as it were,

I want to go where the bee-confusing hum

of young breasts thrilled with growing

disturbs the underwater swimmer

Where the big-time mangoes

get rolled all over your naked body

as if preparing you for a pleasure

the mangoes themselves can scarcely endure

It's almost too hard for the mangoes liking

persuading the Gulf Stream into your limbs

extracting your fevers unhaunting your feet

But the mangoes believe you're the long way around

This is how the mangoes are escorted to the sea

You are asleep on a slow carouse carelessly

and ceaselessly coiling & turning

The fan on the ceiling

is winding you deeper into aquamarine

and I'm rubbing you everywhere with ripe mangoes

They take heat from your skin like the longest of kisses

and I slip them into the refrigerator

In late evening you awaken

with baton-marrow sparkling across your hips & shoulders

and dress in a shift of white linen

We slice up the mangoes & eat them with our fingers

cold and soaked in dark rum

I want to go where the mangoes dream of becoming girls

About the author

Michael Larrain was born in Los Angeles in 1947. He is the author of three collections of poems: The Promises Kept In Sleep, Just One Drink for the Diamond Cutter and For One Moment There Was No Queen. Rainy Day Women Press of Willits, CA, has recently released a CD of his reading of selected love poems called Lipstick: a Catalogue for Continuous Undressing. His novels are South of the North Star, Movies on the Sails and As the Case May Be.

He lives in Sonoma County (California) with his wife and two year old daughter, Wilder Kathleen the Rage of Paris Larrain and has long been a senior partner in the Way Up, Firm and High Tail It Bright Out of Town Detective Agency, a group of shady characters devoted to the discrediting of reality. www.sonomaunions.com

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