Lover’s Quest
We can lie in lust or love
in safe, night beds
next to wives or lovers,
with soft flesh heat,
kissing bodies closer
with a snuggling comfort,
or a flaring passion,
or a slight hand touch
beneath concealing covers
that make dark hours pass,
extending pain’s vision,
leaving us dazed and hungry
wondering why we must be
soul adrift.
Renewal
In the full creation cry
of man and woman
falling together
like a darkening sky,
finally crashing
on soft, sweet loam
of rediscovered earth.
The Seeker
Shall I be a good man,
but how will virtues grow?
Should I read the books
that claim immortal truths,
but conceal how to find them?
I could ask passing strangers
what they know,
but I wouldn’t believe them.
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 11 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways, Displays (Winter Goose Publishing). Fault Lines, Perceptions, Tremors and Perturbations will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. Conditioned Response (Nazar Look). Resonance will be (Dreaming Big Press). His novels include: Extreme Change (Cogwheel Press) Acts of Defiance (Artema Press). Flawed Connections (Black Rose Writing). Call to Valor will be published by Gnome on Pigs Productions. His short story collection, A Glimpse of Youth (Sweatshoppe Publications). Now I Accuse and other stories will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.
