Lenin for Lovers

By Rosemary Aubert

Love found. Love lost. Love found again and for good. Lenin for Lovers is a book of poems that touch the heart and challenge the mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rosemary Aubert
• Release date: Nov 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9780991774609

Rosemary Aubert

Rosemary Aubert is the author of sixteen published books, including the Ellis Portal mystery series and other novels as well as several books of poetry. Excerpts and information about these can be viewed on her website: rosemaryaubert.com.

Book preview

Lovers

like

two great circles

crossing.

One is red

or yellow

or orange.

One is blue

or green.

Or they are different shades

of one colour.

But where

the circles

intersect

they flash

all the wild spectrums

of light

and

become

indefinable colours

or no colour

or invisible

or they are one shade

of one colour.

EX-WIVES

The ghosts are lovely in their season.

Lean in long white dresses, their flower faces

their hair a drape of innocent surmise,

they walk on feet too light

to make a sound.

In candlelight they offer honeyed wine;

their lips are butterflies.

They hesitate in corridors

that lead to virgin beds

and night by night give up

the white-lace gift.

The hands of ghosts are smooth like cream

fragile as unbuttered toast.

And breakfast made by such a waif

sustains, negates the sordid day

that separates.

At evening they are always ready,

their little hands hold back the curtain,

they run to willing arms.

And the whole mean world melts

in the caramel of their embrace.

Later, they grow bored and hard

shrill in their kitchens

unyielding in bed.

Eventually they move to someone else’s home.

But they never die.

A wind-tossed curtain conjures up their gowns.

The smell of spring unleashing sap

calls back their tender fragrance.

The ghosts are lovely in their season,

lean in the wishing chambers

of the heart.

HARVEST

A woman with a broken heart

is picking beans in my garden.

Her hands rifle leaves.

She is not gentle

believing that all things

that begin in the earth

are strong.

What she finds she snaps

off the plant

with one sure twist.

She is harvesting

what she