some place else to be driftin’…
Posted in Verse on Mar 1st, 2005
this moth perched
on an indifferent twig
stilled into essential silence
by the immediacy of a raucous forest
this moth flutters still
onto little seekings, even driven
away from the sanctuary of the darkness it calls
home,
roused ragged into day by the sound
and haste of butterfly wings raging
in capricious vanity flying
from dominance to dominance.
one moth lost, taking flight
from light made inhospitable
by daytime […]
Posted in Verse on Mar 3rd, 2005
Tonight.
He spoke that,
the light above the altar
pining on his bald head.
Urging glory to the uninitiated,
through the wild hedge-grows of life;
loving past hate, trusting beyond betrayal,
hoping
even after the biggest
loss.
One
step
after
the
other.
That is how
you get up, you
know, he said that,
too; you have to go down
past the limit you thought you
would go, even past the point of
giving up, and push, […]
Posted in Letters on Mar 4th, 2005
If I am Still, can I yet be Movement? If I am empty, can I yet be full? I dance with life and I dance with questions. In my certainties, I am always unsure. I do a lot of thinking these days, assume a luxury my pocket assures me I cannot […]
Posted in Verse on Mar 7th, 2005
the heart
a scale a stage
like nothing else
the government of a country
steeped
in lies and subterfuge
the lodestone for misery
and the miserable
home of the deceitful the
defeated
the heart
a scale unbalanced
courtroom like no other
departure and destination
of torment and the tormented
where expectations vie
with inclination
and the oppressed
outnumber
the oppressors
where judgments have
become the village of needs
unclothed
the province of despair
the heart
prisoner and prison
a scale sitting […]
Posted in Verse on Mar 8th, 2005
as i am
i am an infestation
of darkness
an appetite with arms
wide open
devoured and devouring
through life and my times
scourged by truth and lies
both mine and theirs
sweeping through
principle or metaphysic
past stranger and friend
until beauty finds me
light as petals on my mouth
until i find
myself dining on misery
over words
quaffing through silence
bent on discovery or loss
past all reluctance
thus i
become rainfall
coalescing into […]
Ships caught in the undertow
of waves clashing between storms
trapped in flights no seagulls
were made to fly…
It seems to me that is
what we are;
a series of images trapped
in the dancing, tired murmurs
of debilitated thoughts trapped
immobile in the finality of mortality,
fanned in agonized abstraction
over what we would do,
and what we could not
Victims of infinite desires
we don’t even […]
Posted in Verse on Mar 27th, 2005
We are leaves in the full bloom
of summer, destined
for autumn glory;
surreal in discourse, we dance
to wind and half-remembered patterns
of spring-time and dreams,
and first kisses.
We have learned to speak truth
with the grey,
seen the lie in black,
discerned deceit in the white.
We know life as it unfolds for us,
for others, and we know ourselves
unwhole,
except in the company of […]
you wrote,
and i laughed
tears onto hands that
had never learned
to cup heartache
properly.
gifts there are which
free you;
but yes, there is
a giving that
enslaves.
i fear i cannot tell
you
the truth
of my ignorance.
i have lived
too much
to call myself wise;
learned
too little to trust
myself in your presence
so
to tell you truly that
my warmth means
your safety.
the last pillow-fight
i joined willingly
was a carnal disaster
of premature proportions […]
Posted in Verse on Mar 31st, 2005
She sat with me
under the inauspicious sky
as crows sidled close
for crumbs of bread thrown
from my narcissistic hand;
remolded demons we,
from childhood clay,
into the twilight
of a hopeful day.
Ah, this was meant to be,
reincarnation
and the big-bang theory:
souls, long arid, dousing
for water in tearducts long
dry, islands of knowing seeking
to slake heart-hunger
in imagination’s sands,
history lending tomorrow
the benefit of the drought.
We […]
