Always All Ways

            Always All Ways

Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem 

When men are in that kind of love, then all

Is right.  Then everything is rhyming red.

Then every time is thrilled, unblinded Saul.

Then everywhere is Eden thornless spread,

The only tree the Tree of Life, twelve fruits

On every limb, the shape of every one

Like Pentecostal tongues.  Gold Hatshepsuts

Fill all immortal thoughts.  A megaton

Of passion is the promise that this love

Presents in daydreams in his unmade bed,

A holiness implied in push and shove

There, every swollen night a newlywed.

  The partners matter (beautiful, of course)

    But best of all he never feels remorse.

Phillip Whidden