The Organizer’s Call
I hear it from the shore, the organizer’s call,
and organize me, I call back.
Crossing the street against the light, I see it in the look
of the young and elegant gal,
and organize us, I look back.
I feel it when I touch
the newborn’s newborn skin,
the organizing touch,
and beating beneath my only heart, the organizer’s heart.
You find it in old harmonies, the fogeys at their morning sex,
a freshness in us we cannot destroy,
we perfume the blade
with our need.
And late in night’s soup kitchen, there he is
to ladle it out: O taste of that
which does not taste of you.