How We See
gay-dar, gay-dar, gay-dar like sonic, homo-beings
seeing each other for the first time, hope educates
in the dark, at the park, on the streets, between plaid sheets
to the beat, where we eat, at the bars, beneath spilled stars
in the clubs, among green shrubs, inside shade, twilight’s fade
dancing disco, San Francisco, come play, find the way
to L.A., plan, scan, and stay, get that job, join the mob
scene, dream a clean sweep, take the leap and meet the person
we mean to be, become your own manly, womanly
self off the shelf, we can choose nothing to lose come cruise
take some time your climb is the sublime prime and then let
senses, senses, senses locate: All of creation
knows the heart from its start finally settles the search
Transposed
The she is he now
her is him
and I am
mostly they
by nature
we are still
you and me
inside
ever the same
as change
can fluid
like streams
seeking
to become oceans
and humans
continuing
to evolve.
His is theirs now
and mine is ours
but all of us
we embrace
a future
free of nouns
or subordinate
pronouns,
the need
to dominate
or have power.
One simply wants
to grow
whole
and full of life
create
as verb
never asks
for a gender
and besides
who are you
really
but your truest
self?