Poetry
Sex and Revolution
as I move my hands my lips across your supple body blending everything becomes bewildered unpretended in these moments of ecstatic rhythm reggae sweat your breath so still lingering upon my lips your body mine the last of the wine spilled between us in a kiss an offering not offered to some other god but […]
Pattern
What lies within, still ties without One flowing through one From one into another A filament of Spirit Spun spider fine And finite Just enough to touch us all. Tying tiny threads of possibility Tangling in the warp and woof of being Of beings that combined begin to be A Pattern My blood a river […]
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An evening like this: summer sunset cricket song, peachy sky reaching up the vaulted ceiling, cathedral clouds clouds shaped like mountains along the Yangtze River improbable, fairy-tale bubble domes, drifting closer stilling to stalagmites all along the stretched horizon quickly darkening to throw this garden into bas-relief The air no cooler than my blood, and […]
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stagger drunkenly towards truth meaning circles in a dervish spiral spinning, coming closer to the center reaching out to grasp the bigger picture beneath this night sky, blackened and still blanketed with stars what hand moved this chaos into beauty? each point singular, unique and self-sufficient but collectively, contributing its own fire unto the whole […]
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I am filled with the need to do something sensible I am filled with the dread of the perceived inevitable I am fired with the passion of a love unconquerable I am filled with the poetry that runs a blood river Deep within me, moving through me Coming out in ways where I’ve been wounded. […]
Help
“Refuse no one the good on which he has a claim when it is in your power to do it for him.” Book of Proverbs, Bible “Refuse none help that cry for it” And it is celebrated virtue So exhorted for a thousand years, But still the trees are mystified That in their general innocence, […]
Lion
I have been a lion on the plains of Africa Matching sinew against sinew, Timing, speed, all considerations In the meditation of the possible Measuring the balance, Risk and resource, Gain and gamble, Life and death. Now I am a lion on a fabricated rock, Dozing in and out of dreams Golden eyes reflecting faces […]
Pain
I bear a present witness to the face of misery and madness, Tortured souls who across my eyes and sweep the soul aside, Collectively to hide inside the anus of the body politic Drenched in offal, horrified, the soul forgets itself Remembering nothing of its shining, lofty ways upon the wind. It weighs terrible and […]
Still and Yet
Still, the mid-wife’s jar sits in a corner of a solemn room ready with the herbs, ancient and almost reliable, for cleaning house, a tug within that leaves & black hole, gaping, hungry for the time when we will have our freedom freedom not pulled out bloody on the hook of a hanger illegal instrument […]
“Isle of Windows”
The Isle of Widows, Nicaragua The heat rises, steam Moves With the breath of trees, Into the air Haunted eyes speak Their questions of a mystery The men of science come to study This embarassing plague This withering away That leaves the widows wondering. What is the science of oppression? Dr. Mengele knew, Lurching through […]