Kirpal Gordon
ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET/AFTER A LINE BY SAPPHO

Coded notes stroked lightly evoke artfully adorned Aphrodite, a love wish wanderin’ old cobblestone dyin’ to get born for through a passage torn in twilight time, how other worlds pantomime a dream-solvin’ beat on Green Dolphin Street.

Into the melody we slipped stream & back swayed, took flight to the sky’s first star allay we while Aphrodite births nightly in half-shell crawfishin’ for love’s mission: might we tell she’s been seen radiantly sheen & often to eat on Green Dolphin Street.

Walk the pedal point figures behind the theme & dissolve into evening with the ease of an odalisque undressing above your bed, the setting for rapacious nights beyond forgetting in bloodstream’s lovin’ heat on Green Dolphin Street.
Push past daylight’s death into luck’s reception, your match to her cigarette extinguishing your sense of separation, what Venus rising over the sunset already foretells in a scene softened sweet on Green Dolphin Street.


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