Smoothly & simply

hourglass sandlikeIdescend

grand elevatora marble lobby

  my rendezvous resorthaving penned my   wayto fortune

elevated in luxurious chattels   buried

insolitude

thousands of kingdoms between my father &me his

abandonmentdisconnected phone tone

on the night of my birth

The golden lobby

lit like sunsqueezing into a freight tunneleyes rings

of Jupiter & thereheis

  under a crystal chandelier,in the worldI writehim out of

on a curved bench

my father& his family

in mid-century suits & gowns,

as if we belong together

my father

with a diamond-crowned penfrom a suit pocket

hismother/my grandmother

  a frail hand on arose gold cane,hissister/my aunt with a   bronze pearl-barrette

in a jet black airfrolike mine

her son/my cousin with apink belt &a sparkling smile

A grandeurpeering out of pale pink & white

sitting upright

holding hands,

a tribe

They rise like cathedrals

when they see me walking steady &stunnedthe pace of a bride

to themagnetic field

   called   familyas ifmy father   crawled out of the dooms of my poems

thisis what walking is for

to strideinto a father’s armsframed by the familyilluminating

forgiveness.

I cannot help

but expandto a museum,so my father canfeel my art

feelmy shame

He coils himself around me likea windingwhite-goldbracelet   over the medallion

in the marble floorour imagerefracting

in a see-throughgrand pianoI drift deep inside hisorbit

untarnished love

A seraphic spasm

upon my bodyBut Desire,

pardon me,I lie awake now

the shamehe had to findme

inthis dream