A Distant Planet, AIDS Options

[saore]

A Distant Planet

and there,
Beside the thundering waterfall of his heart,
I rubbed my eyes and thought, “I’m lost.”
............................... Rafael Campo


I said,
it's like lifting a cello
out of its case—
“but what do I know
of love's lonely offices”

I'm positive,
he said...
so I chanted
the sweaty shaman's
painted curse

I'd look
inside his throat
to see his misery,
he'd touch his genitals
and think of sin

[Maureen]

I wouldn't change anything either - you say so much with so little and I think that works really well. Such a difficult subject HIV and one most people prefer to avoid and/or ignore and yet sadly it is still so much a part of everyday life but the pot seems to have gone off the boil with it - the warnings and paranoi that walked side by side with it in the early days seem to have fallen into the background of late. Maybe people think we've beaten it - I don't know