Touch Your Shirt

Writing Poetry

L'Enfer

You Teach Me
I thought I was familiar with the lost art of conversation When I had forgotten in your presence Desire speaks - another language I must unlearn As love enters in: a stranger arrogant, and unwilling ©Dean J. Baker ©Dean J. Baker and deanjbaker.wordpress.com, 2009. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material that appears here or has appeared here without express and written permission from [...]

Ithacas
for any and all I will till and plough, let sift the soil; demand fresh herbs, such as coriander and thyme, be softly scented along your arms, at the base of your tenderness Where you and I may speak together impatiently almost, watch the sweet growth surprise the flesh of earth: dance to the tune you sing again, as we await the coming of another birth ©Dean J. [...]

This Earth
What was I running from when everything was beside me Shaking at the thought of you, inside each move I made When I couldn’t say who was called that night into silence whispering in my pain You You it is myself I come upon like this ©Dean J. Baker ©Dean J. Baker and deanjbaker.wordpress.com, 2009. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material that appears here or has appeared here without express [...]

Shifting The Ashes
I turn on the switch, for the kitchen light: nothing stirs. Your shadow at first dark as space, fades and falls behind. The streets climb into silence, listening for the pulse of evening in your step. Where you come clean: as bare-ribbed winter trees Thrust against the threatening sky. ©Dean J. Baker ©Dean J. Baker and deanjbaker.wordpress.com, 2009. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material that appears here [...]

The Stupids
My mind’s a thread unwinding; I pluck at darkness, which falls. It won’t let the stupids out; it suffers them to bray and shout, these Attic businessmen and women: busy, they are knitting spirit doilies. Must I endure like a disease the bad and bright side of the living’s enemies? But who am I asking? We are so few than farther between might be. You [...]