Art work Copyright by Richard Day

Epistrophy

after Monk

The mystery of you

I forget the color of your eyes

I forget the color of your hair

I forget the color of your skin

The mystery of you

I can smell your body in the room

I can feel my way in the dark

Everything seems so familiar

The mystery of you

Is it vermillion or is it rouge

It it passion or is it calculation

You keep changing your mind

The mystery of you

I am picking up after you

Silk shoes everywhere

Mascara and tweezers

The mystery of you

This drizzle of mist

What is it hiding

This sudden sunshine

The mystery of you

Just out of reach

I love your laughter

Blind man’s bluff

The mystery of you

Hydrogen in the atom

A perfect vacuum

Whatever I wanted

How lovely, how lonely

This mystery of you

This evasive tactic

In prenuptial warfare

The mystery of you

Did you ever have a name

That you would answer to

That would fit inside these clothes

The mystery of you

So many questions to ask

But this silence, is it indifference

Or bashful shyness

The mystery of you

Never a dull minute

Trying to unravel you

And always coming up short

Always coming up empty-handed

Now it’s here, now it’s there

Now it’s everywhere

The mystery of you

{10 March 04 Disposable Poem]

Cover Art by Richard Day

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