sketch – Words & Music by Mike Power

First Impression

I try to make a lousy first impression to avoid heightened expectations and other forms of complications There will be time for explanations later later later later

Touch me kindly if you can I don’t know if I can feel any other touch Speak to me softly I will hear I have been training my ears to hear only quiet sounds Look at me with love or mercy if that’s the best that you can do I will look at you withContinue reading “Touch me kindly”

other than love

Everything other than love is illusion and delusion distraction and destruction a waste of time and degrees of separation and digression from consummation and veils of obstruction and excuses for confusion and medicine for diseases that we haven’t invented yet

Behind the long stare

When I was young Hands pulled at my skirt. Now children and grandchildren Tug at my hands Seventh Century Japanese rice-planting song

Drawing

I thought I might do a drawing today and maybe you would pose for me You don’t need to reveal anything that makes you feel uncomfortable I can see all that I need in the skin under your eyes and the positions of your fingers and the width and length of your lips Instead aContinue reading “Drawing”