Flayed to the Bone
For Alan, whose passions were the word, the image, and the song.
To the bone, flayed through fleshand torn awayfrom the tendons and ligamentsof a tortured body.Moans of regret,mourning sensitivity,singular lossbefore the dawningof renewed passion.You have felt it beforeand wish for it no more;no more with the suffering, rejected and escaping,and waiting patientlyfor your destiny, writ in your sleeplessdreams.It is the last time that your eyes seek to seesomeonepassing through dusty cor...