Peter Grieco
To His Muse
Here comes the scent of lindens,
a full moon pulling on yellow pestles,
distant, & impersonal with drowsy desire—
gross enchantments calling lovers
to spin, whirling in trance though they
barely move. Wake me, then, with the strong
wings of your determination, the acid
turn of your smile, with the tart, cool rhythm
of your speech, assuming me to yourself,
till I must act or not exist at all.
Into the heat of the yellow-green solstice
we fly, the orbit of our lives released,
their tethers unwound, parting again
before the lime drunk night can cover us.
Bio
Peter J. Grieco is a retired English professor and former school bus driver. His poems have been widely published in small magazines on-line and in print. His book length series of poems include "At the Musarium," a collection of semi-procedural verse based on word frequency lists, "Misinterpretations of Dreams," a series which interrogates Freud's seminal study of dream life, "Structuralist Poetics," which attempts to come to terms with post-structuralism, & "A Week on the Concord & Merrimac." celebrating Thoreau. His collection of ekphrastic verse, "The Blind Man's Meal," is available from Finishing Line Press.