Spasmodically the gears shift toward green, The refugees huddle around their electricity As genius is wrenched, put to the unusual Circumstance of war. Flash pan of drained oil and the wreckage of pieces Soaked in soapy water. Mind bent … Continue reading →
We fell off of the plane where existence rests so sweetly As palms up at the lap of the sea counting the crashing waves, The blessed beginnings where number falls for her shortened cousin, A smudge of the horizon … Continue reading →
Connotation and Denotation met as cousins by the water To discuss merits and philosophy, not initially a question of beauty. On the allure of a proper name, Poseidon, Persephone or Howard, The grim feature, As the sun to night, … Continue reading →
You have made promises of honesty and walked away, Forthright and head high in the degradation of honest self-reflection. Without ourselves and the patina or tarnish of secrets, what have we? Have we eternity in each breath of a … Continue reading →
The old blow hole, gas chamber, tail pipe, The house of innocents smitten in the round house Like a big wind full of blinding snow, Biting our eyes with the temerity to say so, Termites at the foundation, Call … Continue reading →
Do tell me of frozen mud and browning gold of fallen leaves and the dust of people, Refuse clean as cords clogging the little creek not now in flood but frozen at its edges. The little me, not nimble … Continue reading →
Between us, so little time with the parts to play, To have a heart, and for one another of the world To take the notice to heart and center As the expanding universe of ourselves Seems to have no … Continue reading →
Arrived at the circle of beginning As so many laid down to die. So many shape the space of ground and sky With their dream stages, built places, Wickiup, of sticks leaned together, Contrails, cut lines, they diffuse by … Continue reading →
Furrowed, rutted, the boot leather dry and peeled off its shoe. Love the mud, the trickling run off, the start of streams on a journey down. Gullet, feathers swallowed as by a snake working the bulge of a whole … Continue reading →