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Renato N. Mascardo, 28 july 2023

Stemming the Flow

nullity

under
the bridge thoughts flow
what should have been held back
to coalesce slide through open
sluice gates

over
the dam down to
splashes of lochan each
spit unconnected each
thought lost

fragments
floundering in
muddied marsh the graveyard
of recalls of water under
the bridge

look at
me my love you
go to leave me helpless
here unable to change places
with you

stay with
me longer love
slow the waters flowing
off my love for nothing compares
2 U//

renato
thursday 27 july 2023

Ref: Prince Nelson (1990): Nothing Compares 2 U. Sang by Sinead Marie Bernadette O’Connor aka Sinead O’Connor aka Magda Davitt aka Shuhada’ Sadaqat (b1966-d2023).

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Renato N. Mascardo

Renato N. Mascardo, 8 march 2023

TO A FRIEND

being my friend at 3am

i can’t
even imagine
please let me try what you
feel right now in this darkest hour
before

the break
of dawn being
so alone so short of
breath half reclined in bed so so
tired but

too tired
to sleep instead
my wheezes keep time with
the wall clock that keeps vigil as
best as

it can
conducting this
cacophony of pain
within and without rising and
falling

my tongue
nails skin eyeballs
nude scalp bowels all clamoring
to be

heard by
an audience
captive and one trying
to sort out and plan what still lies
ahead

too much
to learn way too
many steps that can be
taken detours to hurdle when
will all

this end
initials like
notes chirping around me
her2+ adc dfs pfs
leave me

alone
quiet my heart
the war proceeds recedes
the siege continues but i’m far from
alone

but in
this deep lagoon
of ennui in this the
coal black hour of the night please let
me live

an hour
or two of quiet
desperation so that i can
savor all the more another
new day//

renato
wednesday 8 march 2023

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Renato N. Mascardo

Renato N. Mascardo, 2 march 2023

OF SATELLITES, TRAVELS, & FRIENDS

occasional sputniks

fellow
traveler each
one of us was is and will
be from birth to our last gasp
whether

we choose
to or not the
elisions we build merge
and consume parts of us with
pleasure

and pain
companions in
hurt and healing love and
hate being around even when
ignored

off and
on together
we have become casual
sputniks yet we persist or at
least

one of
us who reaches out
to keep the sputnik flame
burning til our discrete journeys
dissolve//

renato
wednesday 1 mar 2023

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Renato N. Mascardo

Renato N. Mascardo, 5 december 2022

PARAPHRASING ADELE

holding on

life is
a game for fools
you win some you lose much
and you keep coming back daring
for more

losing
your wholeness your
silent partner your health
feels like your lover scudding off
from you

you feel
nothing at first
before the ache begins
to engulf you in a maelstrom
of bile

for your
loss you blame so
many her him it self
in the end you know that life is
a game

steadfast
patient you hold
on to your core for no
body else can hold on as well
but you

after
the loss after
the grief time to fight back
to cherish to enjoy to wait
dauntless

without
funk without joy
without pain without bliss
you don’t have life the ultimate
gamble//

renato
sunday 04 december 2022

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Renato N. Mascardo

Renato N. Mascardo, 18 june 2021

Dumpster Blues

the leavings of a past

the maw
of this monster
remained wide open was
ready to gulp down the morsels
of my

recall
a chipped coffee
stained mug a squeaky chair
an old vcr that almost
always

worked a
half full or half
empty jar of royal
blue quink ink that my thirsty pens
would miss

among
the debris and
treasures that ended down
the gullet of the thirty yard
beast as

brandon
the young dumpster
handler pushed the rear gate
shut with a clang draped its top with
a net

trapping
all inside for their
final journey to the
the gehenna of things in the

belly
of the metal
behemoth leaving me
with my memories behind and
forlorn//

renato
friday 18 june 2021

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Renato N. Mascardo, 15 april 2021

unreeling a tangled skein

may old acquaintance be forgot – or not

you
strike the match tip – suddenly

the hiss
the flash
the whiff

the splendor
captivates – like

remembrances of a love
long gone – until

the flame and now
reach and sear
you//

renato
wednesday 14 april 2021

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Renato N. Mascardo, 25 january 2021

if love were a multiple-choice exam

tell me how you prefer this love

like a deep well where light cannot penetrate
where darkness with secrets becomes the norm

like a rivulet rushing down a slope
just to die a rueful death on the dry flat ground below

like an armchair ride that goes nowhere
a stationary rocker lulling you to sleep

tell me how you prefer this love

before you leap across the precipice edge
the instant when there is no return

before you fall head on and free hearted
through a cloud of unknowing
into the maelstrom that is love//

renato
sunday 24 january 2021

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Renato N. Mascardo, 21 january 2021

awakening

january 20

hope in hibernal
unrepose finally stirred
from its nightmareland
of carnage and frenzied rapture
of trumpery waking up
to a new day at noon//

renato
20 january 2021

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Renato N. Mascardo, 19 january 2021

each little loss

with each little loss

not a portent of total ruin
or a herald of perdition
each minor separation

a note kept in the inbox
too long a reply idling
in the draft box a friendship
going slowly to seed

slow slow
tau proteins accrete
united they stick they
entangle fibrils in the brain
letting go the recollection
of a face perhaps
the remembrance of a smile
slow slow

no need
no urgent need to haste
to bridge the breach so tiny
when you still can hear
the sound of her laugh
savor her humor
marvel at her wit
no need
no urgent need

each day
becomes an inertia
sluggishly entangling grows
a memory peels off
seeds your garden of remembrance
leaving confusion behind
still there is tomorrow
no need to hurry
with each little loss//

renato
monday 18 january 2021 (mlkjr day)

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Renato N. Mascardo, 9 january 2021

falling leaves

forty eight

the years since
we parted

you went your way
so did i

between then and
now

things and nothings
happened
and did not

leaves lucent and dark
have touched
our heads and hearts

we’ve seen the glitter
of lights so brief
we’ve felt the touch
of shadows so long

laughs and sobs
our ears have hearkened
our tears have washed

yet we are
you and i
after forty eight
still here//

renato
friday 8 january 2021

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Other poems: Stemming the Flow, TO A FRIEND, OF SATELLITES, TRAVELS, & FRIENDS, PARAPHRASING ADELE, Dumpster Blues, unreeling a tangled skein, if love were a multiple-choice exam, awakening, each little loss, falling leaves, partying in pestilence, in the absence of light, reparations to a bounteous mother, cinquain, seclusion, A Beautiful Day, quantum physics of feelings, lemon = lemonade, Poems on Virtues 2, Poems on Virtues 1, Loneliness of Being One (To Will Liao), remembering the missing & missing the remembered, under siege, A Hymn to Him, and so it goes, departures, recension, heartstrings, The Choices We Make, Tongue in Cheek, Elijah's Lament, exodus and le boulanger, Poem of Being, just being, alternate landing, Schroedinger's Cat, Asymmetry, lure of the dance, holy haptics, trickster time has the last laugh, carnage field, a parthian shot at an ex, lacrimae rerum, in names we trust, love is, first twilight, coywolf, katie's birthday, Sliver, Nuthatch, new day, sunny breezy day, left overs, oscine cantata, gone, backyard feeding time, payola, spring, a passerine sacrifice, cinquain, crepusculum, vegetarian festivity, esmeralda, birdseeds on the grass, bits and pieces, life of quiet desperation, After the Wane, on goings and comings, a tedious turn of a loved one's mind, just before you extend your claws, Exodus V, dwindles, lines written on her birth date, remembering, autumn, skirting isolation, missing a muse, Complexities and complications, another of life's little ironies, Image, Autumn, seasons, paradox, thumb-nail sketch, assuaging a craving, degrees of solitude, disremembering, particle physics of the heart, marking time mutually, the reason for writing, in the company of aloneness, valentine, sounds of silent ironies,

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