Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Zero Destination

Only fly exception wants left
Wanting fair exchange and rocking
Waking hours we wasted
Tunnel sense depraved we cast
Our draped ember tide about
Feather hands beside the lemming
Pool closed your eyes and stopped
Your voice from raging gifted
Mass reflects remainder
Lesson lights on pressure laden
Wheel-flight spiral dune and sun;
Only sail alight fair zero
Destination sail and soar and
Skip your crippled wing-bent
Cross-eyed fear among the swirl
Skiff by harbor garden help
Sun clouds pare summer sand
Light between your blue
Battalion, we wept together
Separate and apart she sent
The coded signal beams
Shingle cast to pressure
Waves from amplitude and
Back again alighting sail
To zero: fall down bring
The wheel around again to
Cinder scrape shells against the
Evening pearl you might once
Again define me chrome intense
Against the trivet rose-cropped
Boxes long ago consign me fair
Alight wheel spiral dune and sun
Flight sail and soar your draped
Ember tide fair zero destination.
 

Friday, May 24, 2013

Not Even Lust

Not even lust
Could waste hold
Tend or borrow not
Even trust desire could
Finger lip the begin half
Jobs that spilled and split
Your marrow cut in two
Your only joint in
Several willing ways
When you woke unburied
Nearly every sensible
Trip-wire tendon
Tremor held you
Speechless
When you took down
Those cleared out
Wants not even
What held your
Truly heart valves
Open could pull
You out of your
Tended ways of seeming
Haven’t you had
Enough preventing
Beds not even semi
Detached encounters
With your emulated
Vision have not the found
Blue dignitaries forged
Enough confusion
To be burned
A lozenge in your
Skull not even leg
Drives between your
Thighs could uncover
What you were
Thinking not even
Your one light became
Two could string
Us back together
Could burn
Us into one.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Here Are

Here are temporal things
Which shudder their
Weight ball prick resounding
Shift blame dissolve
Harrow from a harbinger milk
Sky here are things which
Burst forth and deny they
Were here tomorrow
Changeling never works that
Went away skin that shirks
Derides the day cleft
Against the welter borrow
Bossed by clock hammers
Harrowing waves pitched up
Bearing lost here are rings
Or semblance of summer
Things tired and went away
We tried our best we fought
Against the locks and rushing
Onslaught seconds mourning
Dawns that slipped away
We grasped their shin splinted
Efforts their arms raised
High imploring hand beaten
Against the day and rushing
Months gone by here are
Temporary things which
Left us by the by temperamental
Things which lever old wounds
Patch the blusters cuts and
Bruises vanquish empty
Picture frames only
Carried in the eye.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Pain Detail

Pain detail enough terribly
Tired of this distortion
This trip to the finish
Wherein you livened up
The dead frock you
Tore apart the mask of
Their instantly insanity
Why wouldn’t you seek
To shelter here why shouldn’t
A father’s kiss land on its side
Contrails of pain scatter

And cross and flip the
World on edge across the
Smile derided sky
Center best your screen borne
Delusions details of all
They wrought flashed across
The slipping silent flight
Star detail make us and
You and all your hates my
Measured dripped and droll
Companion tired as I might
Encase me firefight and chase
Me run and scatter lodged in

Lip a scaled up travesty
Of seamless notoriety
Don’t quote me on
This according to sources
Who shall not be named
The habit of pain denial of
Cause and effect has led
To this seclusion fed desire
Unto this wrap honored
Flag rifled bullet
Shrapneled obsession
With the wanton
And the dead.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Control Frequency

Open upon several tears
Rise up and levitate
Thank born hair
Raised up heightened
Upon the loom
Politicians warn you
Scorn you away
From felt dreams lifting
Yourself up with
Your own feeling
Control frequency
Inside controller
Frequency inside
Inside control
Verily walk on a path
That threads beneath
The storm on a wayward
Straight and narrow
Swathe beneath black
Pressing clouds erupting wide
Jettison charms of space
Language symbol signs
Flowing through your sacred
Cave and bull offering
Control frequency
Inside controller
Jets machine through storm
Clouds low upon the sky
Crackling voices echo through
Evening power grid light
Frequency inside
Inside control.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Dissonant Seven

Dissonant seven times
Struck speak to me
Of your schemes
Of your hollowed out
Strife-sunken honors and loss
Hemorrhaging themselves
Upon the open
Hayfield between
The trees dead
And dormant pendulum
Yellow gold
And white
Waiting to
Shake loose the
Mantle you threw upon
His shouldering doubts
Time-worn and
Tentative out
Upon the saving-grace
Urgency benign;
Always talking I don’t
Want to hear any voices
Any more
Not even yours
Syllables mounting up
To something scything
Through a sky-torn
Ambulance dread
Counting by the
Times fraught with
Scurrying penniless
One place to the next
Now we are beyond
That now we ascend
And expand beyond
Words and doubts
To the next
Seven whatever they
May be.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Complex Knowing — Number 3

Always rooms and muster
Foreign stones complete
How many were never sent
Or telegrams left out in the wind

Carpet borne stride for stride
Completing Harriet intellect
And laughter from
The right hand sympathies
Wherein eguía rioja
Shoulder chipped November
Ballad strung along a
Wastrel song of signing

Notes and remedies partially
Surrendered far away from
Halo eyes and disconnected
Tenor calling to the proud glass
Sky above your head another
Moment another drip
Across a parking lot bounced
And billed cerulean surprise;

Never mind
You wouldn’t want to be
Here past November you
Wouldn’t want to leave
Your yesterdays along
The road you chose
To follow;
Gather them up
And send them away to
Another leg bark distance
Hanging on an obvious
Bed you dared not
Say goodbye.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Visitor

Where could a visitor
Come here his
Only leaving
Whence could a star
Born child escape his
Alone away enthralling
Fair born mother
Leaves among the province
All the sea-still grace
And creaking asking
Why her sun-child visits
Desperate planet servants
Like unto this
Who would choose to
Come here his
Feet on the dust his
Face a mask of glory
What could complete
A road-weary man
Of many journeys
Basking on the back
Of a country filled
With pain and chilling need
When will he leave us
When will his parting
Days begin if so many
Of us need him
How will we quarter
Portion head and eaves
Of knives to carve him
If he chose to join us
And now he chooses to
Go his separate way.

Monday, January 14, 2013




No one was around when it happened. There was no applause or congratulations. No one thanked her or praised her. No one noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
-Rev Safire Rose do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment. She didn't call the prayer line. She didn't utter one word. She just let go.

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”Once you realize that all comes from within—that the world in which you live is not projected onto you, but by you—your fear comes to an end.”

— Nisargadatta

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Eventide

The earth longs sad and
Long for the message
You’ve been given to bring
Rendered doubtful
In a corner trod upon
Winepress relations
Of each unending
Moment
Far be it for me
To say
What’s troubling you
What’s in your head
Or whether you will
Overcome that longing;
Whether the
Wound upon your
Open heart would
Stride around the houses
Stoop to look
In an unspent
Instant
Of hardened guilt
The world longs eventide
And morning long
For your longing
For the coaxing image
Of your mother’s
Grace and claims
Far be it for me
To say
Whether you
Would be better
Off to stride away
Without your message
Sent with all your flesh
And blood deliverance culled
Fastness to maximum
Extent.

Monday, December 31, 2012

Galicia

Country of early Gauls
Fortified in forbearance
Of slaughter
In Galatia also the
Gauls were sent
From Macedon and
Thrace they poured
Upon the trembling
Daughters restless
Righteous enough for
Their own cause
In Ancyra they dwelled
Bounded on the north
By Bythinia and
Paphlagonia
On the east by
Pontus and hills
Of Cappadocia
To the west
The mysteries
Of Phrygia
And onward south
The mythic oracle
And bandits of
Cilicia and Lycaonia
Far and wide they
Went from Trier to
Kiev La Coruña and
Lutetia to the Orient
Horsemen
Seeking pasture land
And gold
Their havens only
Kingdoms lost
Only shifting realms
Their sons could
Never hold their
Language never
Written legacy of
The dying Gaul
Only Greeks and
Romans told.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Cold Triptych

Remember when
The world was new
The darkness was a
Sacrament of light
Come away star
To the far edge of
The field
To the forest glen
Called upon cold
Triptych
Whether with you
Or planked from
Indecision rounding a
Necessary
Complement all is
Not lost
Not even his feeling nameless
Fear his monument of
Murmured
Meaning stretched
Across the soul’s expanse
And all the thirsty
Drank of it.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Complex Knowing - Number 7

It’s fairly simple
When you take a step
Back from haste everything
You stockpile will
One day drift away
Be careful what they ask you
To do
One day they will
Call upon you to sacrifice
Your soul;
Intense young people
Accumulating gadgets
Numbers and words
They all must be shed
One way or another
Layers of dust on
A crystal gem
Fairly aware that I
Come and go at will
From the other side this life
Is but a clinical ecstasy of an
Ocean rippling free and more
Distant than a howling call
Homeless spirit rattling coins
In a coffee cup wisdom
More than knowledge spent
Lying beside you was more
Difficult than
Any other I shed
Bodies in a manner
Such as a snake
Sheds its skin.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

All

All that he has known
Of sorrow
Came wrapped in that
Rain and shadow sky
Everything he bought or
Borrowed flew down
Across the wood alone
With faithful leaves that
Fell only yesterday
Or earlier today;
If only he had known
The cost of keeping
Up appearances
He wouldn’t bother
Sending distances away
He wouldn’t
Calculate the interest on
A debt he couldn’t pay
For in his dreaming heart
He understands the
Only truth a mind can
Never know;
His everlasting
Expanding self is so
Much more than
A piece of cloth
A clod of earth
And together with it
All the same
His necessary
Inmost self is beyond
These dim impersonations
Of his only watching eye,
And even though he finds that
All is lost
In his dreaming heart
He knows that he is one
With every fallen leaf and
Every dark wet night
For he is one with all in all.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

In Midnight Still

In midnight still the driven winds
Incite the last fog lashes
With brazen impediment any
Harbinger creekbeds flush
With the secret ways of the
Most pecuniary delight,
Ferry them forward across the
Lessons they must learn and
Release them as they will be
From the hardships and
Instruments of desire;

Any ways of impediment are
Nearly always a roadbed through
Encompassment of knowledge
Flown heavenward astride
The fourth blown magical and
Fertile borne breast of a woman,
Even the cockle march failures
Of their least worn sympathies
Stagger down tragic byways
Brushed aside before the damp
And dripping levers of defiance;

In break of day insoluble still
Mysterious and filled with meager
Birdsong motions towards the light
Grant them the haven of your
Windless arms your stationary
Inception strewn with grace,
Only the everlasting expanse of
Your embrace can heal them
Of their final sleep enhanced
Deliveries their scorn-blessed victims
And their paralyzing advice.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Victorious

In the unlikely hour of
Our demise in sense or
Sensitivity victorious
In ominous outstanding
Debts of fossilized accounts
Or filled in nerve endings
Blazoned by imaginings
Tremors felt inside the bargain
Basement sea scape instantly
Underwhelmed beneath the
Skin so white it has no springs
No rooms, no fettered forms of
Planks or wires or attachment;
It never fails to render its
Amazement grown accustomed
To the towering pillars
Of clouds silver white across
The sky; very few survivors ever
Wish to tell the tale of the
Thousand times they died before
Forgotten real estate spun
Amongst the barb wire
Cannon trembling judgments
Fishscale sin-severed faintest
Recollections of an earthbound
Lightbulb night incredulous; we
Forego the common delusions
Take money where they give
It and work until the months
Are gone the skin is dried
Upon the bone and the
Victors tally up the score.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Nothing

Vastness sound across the void
There’s nothing left
To say or do
How
Much, when or where
Have never mattered
Thought began
The ceaseless toil of
Time
A riven window gravely
Gone unless the lovely
Magic justice could
Prevail, until the feeling
Went
Away; I told him
Never to bear the
Heartaches lightly never
To hobble beyond or
Bind
Himself to appearance
Shivering bones or
Past-tense quarter note
Desires.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Mougins

Doubtful that the old renown
Could help us any longer
Suspect world of disasters
And telephone wires etched
Against the sky
Disconsolate nights
Relinquish whatever was
Good and gorgeous worth
Remembering or waking up
For once more;
The lavender writhes
And capitulates under the
Pounding of the storm
The stars could not help
Us any longer the hills
In their splendour or
Views of the sea;
Cruel abysses forests and
Tempests gardens all of
Them conspired against
Us each of them lived
Longer than our visit there
And any meaningless
Laughter we had was
Washed into another
Place where he can open
His eyes and smile
And run with us once more.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Blond Enclosure

Even the desolate places
Are in touch with the holy
The sober sacred still
Ideas that went
Nowhere
Even the objected ones
Who are only private
Sparks of a flame
Half-spoken plans obliged
Out of blond enclosure
Lost and forgotten
Skeptical prophecy considered
Fascinating by a second
Breath
Even the dust and the dirt
Dried up alongside
A tangle of weeds
Deserves the full
Touch of the divine crisis
Events and gaunt heavenly
Dawn in desperate
Need are no longer aware
Of their holiness lost
And forgotten and
Sacred all the same.


Wednesday, June 20, 2012

From Before the Sparrow

From before the sparrow harmless
Holds the initiate is tested
Pulled back buffeted
By heedless words
Shoved and punted beaten
Back and yet he
Flutters
Forth he
Allows what is
To be
He sails along lifted
Up by situation currents
Of air by children
Calling voices middle of the night
Uneasy telegram wind
Bears away the hours
He grieves the
Gentle approaching
Parting dry
Rainless stubble
Summer days
The stream is
Dying barely full enough to
Filter past the drifting
Turning of the
Year and yet he
Falters
Forth he knows enough to
Sing his evening song
And glide across the
Parchment drafted
Wind and
Allow it.