Guest Poet: Dan Schneider

Dan Schneider, of whom Joe publishes a review every now and then, agreed to let me publish one of his poems every couple of weeks. Today:

YOU ARE ALL DESIRE

My needs, they fall away from me. (Dull flesh-
can it convince itself?) They are: oxygen-
to flame each breath; sources of food and water-
to quell the instinctual ravening
brought by you; sources of clothing and shelter-
to protect my body from the world’s duress.
My needs, they fall away from me. Not you,
my love, for you are verging on somethingness,
like the full beats of my growing heart, which falls
likewise itself, in infinite crashes
into conflagrations which are only all
that keeps my sonnetry in this small purview

which falls from me to you. Should you inquire:
You are not a need. You are all desire.

Copyright 2007 by Dan Schneider