Archive for the ‘1984’ Category

1984-01-30 Kathy M. IV

Monday, January 30th, 1984

Kathy M. IV

Engraved like stuben glass, her face
against the sunlight … telling me no
she wasn’t confused about how she felt
about me
about her marriage and her life, yes…
but about me, … no ….

I could have wished it otherwise
my emptiness told me
but I came here for the truth
either way … to feel it,
to embrace it.

Even now I want to run and say, ‘stay’,
that I can be JUST friends
share smiles and lunches and friendship
endure for the magic of your smiles
and the candor of your spirit.

But why say this …
the sight of her will be enough
to unmoor me in the days to come
when against all feeling I’ll ignore her
and against all reason, … fail.

gallagher
30 jun 84
Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1984-01-31

Tuesday, January 31st, 1984

This evening waits against my empty heart.
It’s come to rest… footsteps die away.
Motors drone and light bulbs blaze of ice.
I’m alone and all up against myself.

The silence claws, begs me… for relief.
A letter’s started, dies, for nothing’s brief.

I willed to face it, the neon aching time,
without distractions, to edge up to some line.

gallagher
31 jan 84
irvine


— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1984-02-01

Wednesday, February 1st, 1984

         Why do we struggle so...
           we who are just indefinite moments
              of indistinct clarity.

          Small perceptions astride eternal purpose
           fragments of evolution's imagination
              minor reflections in the ocean of her.
  
         Unable to stop her birth pangs
           we live as froth from her caldron's brew
              and live and die...beneath her swell.

         We who have only to create ourselves
           and our progeny here
              where the sun's excess showers us.

         Here, close to the flame
           where entropy run reversed
              here...we search for our name.

                                       gallagher
                                       01 feb 84
                                       Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —