31(32)

gli amori, his refrain 
1-2 
owning skills in contemplation,
his plural loves
even cover for my arrogance 
3-5
then arm no vice though heavier night
and day outsummering tears to bone
                                                              within

saying I will say my preference
and never hide my preferences
                                                              within
6-7
each in proper time to tide or join
in tone to rise above the flood
8-9
his eye over my path as guide 
so horse or mule without a bridle
10-11
till my error bitless dare with charm
owning skills in contemplation,
ownest offering to err.

                                                   (per Pasquale)

30 (31)

his chant as benefit
1-6
with twice a breath to separate
two glides across an alphabetic gene
unnetting hand commended spirit 
7-9
thence hate but fiction breeding past 
now feet for roomier gladness hast
10-14
each sooner day this single sob would
sudden aging body-eyed to shame
15-19
his praying there you are here I am
was ever lesser arrogance for psalm
20-23
as merer presence more than grief
that palaces its tongue in haste 
that has no secrecy for acronym
24-25
as when I did call to him at length
for courage, he did listen, and for strength.

                                    (for Bertrand)