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Peggy Zuleika Lynch

One Night Stands

Staged in segments of today and yesterday
anticipating tomorrow
when the curtain goes up
and the play begins
she lives in a series of acts.
never mind which play,
an actress such as Connie
always is one character
or another.
Comedy or tragedy matters not
since she is familiar with each.
Playing for capacity crowds
or empty houses
she becomes accustomed to fate
cuing to direction
until the final curtain.

Paris, 1991

Fire

Your being I remember
so vividly my nipples tingle.
The thought of your touch
sends the thrill of you
rushing through my veins
totally out of range of your
being ever near to touch
me again.
But beginning fire of desire
rekindles the burning intensity
of you coming though.
Distance makes no change
for these embers fare same
wanting the ecstasy of completion
of the flame out immensity.

soul cringe

how many
for years
have had their souls
cringed
with
diabolic criticism
thrust at them
before their friends
or even strangers
near enough to hear?

how many
for years
have felt the seared
embarrassment
within,
so much that eye
could not behold
another’s
for fear of being
seen
so naked
and exposed?

A Lifetime for This

And you come to this:
only a name on a list,
a list most will miss.
How many read obits?

Haiku

a polar bear stand
an ice fog envelops him
a ghostly vision

   the moon barely shines
   starlight brightens the dark sky
   sequins of the night

shedding an old life
is like shedding the cocoon--
a new butterfly

   rain pounds the pebbled roof
   wind picks up the loosened stones
   scattered togetherness

To the Top

Yeast rises
expands
with its movement
yielding itself
to compelling
need of its
fermentation.

Love rises
and the blend
of all senses
stimulates
vigor’s need
for fertilization,
ecstasy of completion.

Paris, 1991