some place else to be driftin’…
Posted in Points for Reflection on Sep 4th, 2008
“Threeness, trinity, or triad, has always been considered sacred–like oneness, duality, and all numbers–by virtue of its very properties and particular attributes. These properties and attributes are manifested in its threefold nature, which of itself is the inevitable expression of a principle, an archetypal fact, that solidifies in a series, as a representation of ideas […]
I bask warm when you speak;
my soul a drop away from the brim,
my heart that breathless instant
before it becomes
prey
running from the pack.
I inhale you to me, and I do not
want to breathe out
again,
even as I hold all thought at bay, away,
while thirst holds sway,
instantly fulfilled, immediately slaked,
by words that are no mirage,
by my sense of […]
Posted in Verse on Sep 9th, 2008
I am not brilliant
in any two-minute way,
or in any explosive manner
you want to name.
I merely perceive my world
through my reactions to it;
the quality of my own mortifications,
the incongruous way speechlessness
takes over my senses
when beholding wonders,
the easy way words run into the meadows
to chase feelings and butterfly wings.
I write, moved, transported
elsewhere,
with found honesty,
when time and words […]
