MAYAKOVSKY'S DAY
1893-1930
Birthday July 19

Your handsome voice
on the platform of one
above the crowd
in the Moscow rainstorm
swaying your hips
to a Russian polka
by undelivered love letters
on the saliva of  big kisses
and near missed opportunities
seeking doors of words
from red lipstick mirrors
of abolished insomnia
and sleep housed myth
returning to wish you
on arboreal ballads of secrets
a peace offering
from my three cornered hat.