SIX LATIN INFINITIVES

I. ANIMARE

smoke : moonless San Jose : or moonlight, powerful : blooming light lost : 1am tenderness : today : tomorrow’s birthplace : home for yesterday : four months ago : skin-shedding : my fingertip, softness : lavender, smooth leather : milk & motherhood

II. AMARE

blushing cheek : blood-stretched : veins & arteries : human rivers : the blue-before-the-red : woman-before-the-man : God-before-the-man : love-creation : Is God a poet? : wonder, how lustful : secret sweetness : toothache, pull : gravity, the force : gravity, the falling

III. SENTIRE

touch this : heat-plastered thumbprint : stamp on eternity : prayer : time unchanging : constant change : paradoxes : lacking everything: absence & presence : heaven

IV. DESIDERARE

the unholy want : overflowing : core : cylinders & hollower emptiness : thought : untrue truths : uncertainty : 98% : higher heights : or peaks looking downwards : backwards : leftwards : negative velocity needing definition

V. VIDERE

contact-point : retrospective wholeness : Rome : this tongue in Rome : this tongue in America : a fuller breath expanding : diaphragm, the right lung : the human life

VI. ESSE

be : everything