To Lisa (1953 - 2009)

Down upon the steaming dregs of memory,


Where luminous squid and grinning dolphins feed


Where goddesses lurk, whose humid armpits reek of gold


And the gnawed over carrion of love gone cold


There I stumbled upon you,


Lost in the traffic of time's fell speed


Beyond all touch and comfort


Beyond all loss and need


Never was death so real

DS 12/30/09