Sunday, January 26, 2025

Pillowing (after)

Brush away

C lo u ds 

clinging to 

eyelashes that hover 

morning mist-like to a

sleeping valley yet 

to be touched 

by day. 


A jumbled geography,

only you know

which is empyreal sky 

and which is 

a sturdy line of shore.


I want to bury my

wandering fingers 

in cool soft dunes. 

I anxiously await 

sunrise to work its


wondrous


warm ing.


A Controlled Burning (before)

Surrender to ascending 

silver skin begging 

for a treasure seeking 

mouth to murmur 

from an open 

chest 


Choose me! Choose Me! 


A glistening linear pair, 

we are the dawn. 


In corpus linguistics.


A heaving collocation 

of successful communication, 

we are permanently 

fixed. 


Ahoy! Incandescent 

pulsing electricity

heats in 

a chorus of screaming 

ON. 


Fire swept.


We work to

extinguish the woe 

of the world and smolder

in paradise knowing 


You chose me! You Chose Me!


Thursday, January 23, 2025

Ever Becoming


                           Unceasing 
concentric circles 
concise casting 
3 by 
3 by 
3. 

With no start there 
is no end. Unity
infinity a space 
between worlds ever 
                               becoming. 

A limitless horizon, 
                              center standing,
face the direction 
that calls you 
home.

New points 
on an ancient compass.
In-vocation with dis-missals
put past 
in ash 
and circulate 

Your path has no map

Purgatory: A Sears Parking Lot in Florida as a Children's Slumber Party Rages at Home

For Pop Pop
I went on one of his famously long walks.
For Peter
I dedicated a song before hundreds because the show must go on.
For Christopher
I read about Zen and Motorcycles but found neither God or speed.
For dad
I sobbed in rush hour traffic because my car was a womb in which I was trapped.

So mom where will it be?
You know I hate surprises.

See title for the answer.