Aubade by Gary Glauber

Aubade

 

Closed eyes convey

a silent language

amidst fevered dreams

of ecstasy and dread.

Distant chimes signify

a mad struggle,

an involuntary insult,

a reneged promise

in a land of familiar mystery.

 

The trial of morning

brings clinging belief

with clarity akin

to a glacier’s blue ice.

Beauty is maintained

with whispers, a feathered touch,

and thoughts of kisses.

Passion’s sweet vision

teeters on uneven edge

of fashionable tolerance,

a realm of hope and hunger

made more abstract

with each passing moment.

 

Venus swirls and forgives

wrong thoughts

in lieu of passing virility.

Certainty flies like ephemera

on rapacious tendrils of

unexpected wind,

softly knocking,

a noise of sensual irritation.

Let lost innocence recover

though a turbulent maelstrom

masquerading as sleep.

 

(first published in Sick Lit Magazine) 

Gary Glauber is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist.  His works have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations.

His two collections,Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) andWorth the Candle (Five Oaks Press), and a chapbook, Memory Marries Desire(Finishing Line Press), 

are available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and directly from the publishers.