for Natalie
Your talents
a whirlwind of
wild colors of
tangent beauty
total and uncompromised
justly framed in fire
stalking streets
I rename in your wake
where lost in your radiance
with each clue a mystery
even your violet
lipstick traces on
half inhaled cigarettes.
I need a lost simplicity
to capture
what in essence is
formless yet
in words fluent
as your careless smile
or unplanned backward
step or too forward
a joke to register
with others to
say why. For
the camera sustains you
for so many.
A model/dancer
whom the camera
jousts a rare intimacy
with between bouts
of latent jealousy
I know well
each new picture
stealing a moment
truly not mine.
Yet it is enough
for me just to
make that happen.
far easier with you
than anyone else.
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Plethora
by Rp Verlaine
Rp Verlaine lives in New York City.
He has an MFA in creative writing from City College.
He taught in New York Public Schools for many years.
His first volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames
& Drinking was published in 2017, and another – Femme Fatales
Movie Starlets & Rockers in 2018. A set of three e-books
titled Lies From The Autobiography vol 1-3 were published from
2018 to 2020. His newest book, Imagined Indecencies,
was published in February 2022. He was nominated for a
Pushcart prize in poetry in 2021 and 2022.
