i had a dream of breathing dream clouds
not the death hard face of
go to work every day dad -
a swirling day of light and joy
with all the confusion of
happiness you can’t stop or control
the music is everywhere
i’m surrounded by it
a whirling dervish
i dance all day
bright blue breaks through
and i take to the sky
soaring through the brightness
warm waves of day
surge around me buoy me up
gentle as a caress pleasant as a body
carrying me on bright hued winds
a bird of drums and fifes
i’m dreaming a dream where it’s good to be me
where fault is not in free to be
Monday, July 30, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
busy day
first day of rain i’ve seen
and less people not so many people as the hotel
but all these people want to talk
how is everything how was everything how will everything be
i took a can opener but didn’t have to pry very hard to get some milk
had tea while the phone rang
phone calls a lot of phone calls
a regular oracle at Delphi you know what i mean
wistful to watch pictures who were all those people
especially the ones that looked like us
you know the smiling ones with the real familiar faces
not a care in the world simply not a care
felt a little robbed maybe even mugged
felt like quiet violence had taken place
sat and stared trying to stay out of all the talk
talk goes on you know since they come over to see you
but then they get started warmed up competitively telling stories
they know they are well-meaning crazy about being nice in fact
but their own lives are what they want to talk about
so i just sit back and the day goes on
almost as if i was still where i am missing
and less people not so many people as the hotel
but all these people want to talk
how is everything how was everything how will everything be
i took a can opener but didn’t have to pry very hard to get some milk
had tea while the phone rang
phone calls a lot of phone calls
a regular oracle at Delphi you know what i mean
wistful to watch pictures who were all those people
especially the ones that looked like us
you know the smiling ones with the real familiar faces
not a care in the world simply not a care
felt a little robbed maybe even mugged
felt like quiet violence had taken place
sat and stared trying to stay out of all the talk
talk goes on you know since they come over to see you
but then they get started warmed up competitively telling stories
they know they are well-meaning crazy about being nice in fact
but their own lives are what they want to talk about
so i just sit back and the day goes on
almost as if i was still where i am missing
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
on seeing things in motion
flowers in a turbid vase
battered and ruined by being there
so beautiful to see
so dead and dying
so what they are not
and so what they will be
many finches feeding below the tree
at the hint of a cat
they speed to the branches
which now wave to me -
a large green hand -
i wave back
yes you‘re right
i needed to smile again
battered and ruined by being there
so beautiful to see
so dead and dying
so what they are not
and so what they will be
many finches feeding below the tree
at the hint of a cat
they speed to the branches
which now wave to me -
a large green hand -
i wave back
yes you‘re right
i needed to smile again
Monday, July 23, 2007
Grand Efe
the waves are blue and crystalline
the sun permeates everything
the sand and the smell of salt
are a possible universe
the waves gather light and air
and splash the eroding rock with it
everything is awash with the fact of beach
and the day is too brittle to carry cynicism
the sun permeates everything
the sand and the smell of salt
are a possible universe
the waves gather light and air
and splash the eroding rock with it
everything is awash with the fact of beach
and the day is too brittle to carry cynicism
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
hourglass beach
she grabs her slippers
adjusts her navel
says i am a jeweled toy
hungry for despair
we - as is her wish -
do not talk about it
there is little
in that brittle manicure world
that is up for discussion
i am the dog of old wrinkles
my loose flesh
seems to shiver in the sun
the light hides the truth
the cicadas sing
the agean sea crashes softly
a horsefly bites my ankle
the litany of time
is quietly chanted
over cards and beer
by picnic table swimsuit old couple
at the shore
of the narrow measure of sand
adjusts her navel
says i am a jeweled toy
hungry for despair
we - as is her wish -
do not talk about it
there is little
in that brittle manicure world
that is up for discussion
i am the dog of old wrinkles
my loose flesh
seems to shiver in the sun
the light hides the truth
the cicadas sing
the agean sea crashes softly
a horsefly bites my ankle
the litany of time
is quietly chanted
over cards and beer
by picnic table swimsuit old couple
at the shore
of the narrow measure of sand
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
arf
trick dogs of the past
dance to new music
get up and move to it
someone wants to slowly sway to it -
sway away into vengance and despair
tears are always waiting
bursting forth from edges and corners we turn
when light blinds us
or darkness lies about its comfort
we sway to subtle hums of hips -
pleasure to pretend against pain -
pleasure that gnaws bone when flesh is gone
clap your hands and slowly spin
we are the skinny trick dogs of the past
dance to new music
get up and move to it
someone wants to slowly sway to it -
sway away into vengance and despair
tears are always waiting
bursting forth from edges and corners we turn
when light blinds us
or darkness lies about its comfort
we sway to subtle hums of hips -
pleasure to pretend against pain -
pleasure that gnaws bone when flesh is gone
clap your hands and slowly spin
we are the skinny trick dogs of the past
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
initials
show me the night sky
where darkness is your rib cage
and echoing within
is the pounding of your heart
i know that thump
pushing that blue liquid
carrying things jumbled together
like love hope pain
and that gathering ball
of strands of distrust
anxiously tying themselves
to your youthful thoughts
dragged kicking and screaming
into that silence and darkness
i know in that deep dark
you could show me
your heart
and i could see those letters
carved in it
as if florescent
and so i show you yours on mine
where darkness is your rib cage
and echoing within
is the pounding of your heart
i know that thump
pushing that blue liquid
carrying things jumbled together
like love hope pain
and that gathering ball
of strands of distrust
anxiously tying themselves
to your youthful thoughts
dragged kicking and screaming
into that silence and darkness
i know in that deep dark
you could show me
your heart
and i could see those letters
carved in it
as if florescent
and so i show you yours on mine
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Party
love was dead
it made me sick too
pug shrug ugly
past tense dreams
i didn’t have any chance
selecting
where was hope
i hadn’t seen it
a long time
lonely me
my dice time again tonight
i found you
we watched eyes
but we found your belt
stars twinkled
breathlessly
putting my hand racing time
we both gasped
secret now
secret forever
this was our
only chance
this was our only real hope
still got caught
it made me sick too
pug shrug ugly
past tense dreams
i didn’t have any chance
selecting
where was hope
i hadn’t seen it
a long time
lonely me
my dice time again tonight
i found you
we watched eyes
but we found your belt
stars twinkled
breathlessly
putting my hand racing time
we both gasped
secret now
secret forever
this was our
only chance
this was our only real hope
still got caught
Friday, July 06, 2007
painful
the wound sits sullenly
seeming never to scar over
in my white jacket with
mirror on my forehead
i take out my pen
to look for its history
a deep pocket of hurt –
imbedded alternate reality –
in a shallow layer of skin
scratching my case notes
on oversensitive paper
like a photo of a sigh
beauty maybe is skin deep
but ugly is a cosmos
seeming never to scar over
in my white jacket with
mirror on my forehead
i take out my pen
to look for its history
a deep pocket of hurt –
imbedded alternate reality –
in a shallow layer of skin
scratching my case notes
on oversensitive paper
like a photo of a sigh
beauty maybe is skin deep
but ugly is a cosmos
Sunday, July 01, 2007
blade blood
all this anger drifts skyward as a flaming ball over the darkness of the city night
down below, just above the skyscrapers, sits this dense cloud of raining sorrow
the French horns of screams add a hollow solemness around the buildings
that ephiphinizes nature’s calm acceptance
of right and wrong as existences of equal entitlement -
a place for everything with wrong at the head
oh i am sorry i cannot make this better
i am, after all, just another stupid human
stupider than most because i see what is wrong
and can do nothing
what, i wonder, does it mean to be human, to live in this mess,
behave like trash, and treat each other accordingly
yes i foul myself because i am a course man
forgive me, find in what i say some hope i cannot see
find us a way forward
find something that is not a logical extension of me
find it in your heart to forgive me for writing about it instead of being there
down below, just above the skyscrapers, sits this dense cloud of raining sorrow
the French horns of screams add a hollow solemness around the buildings
that ephiphinizes nature’s calm acceptance
of right and wrong as existences of equal entitlement -
a place for everything with wrong at the head
oh i am sorry i cannot make this better
i am, after all, just another stupid human
stupider than most because i see what is wrong
and can do nothing
what, i wonder, does it mean to be human, to live in this mess,
behave like trash, and treat each other accordingly
yes i foul myself because i am a course man
forgive me, find in what i say some hope i cannot see
find us a way forward
find something that is not a logical extension of me
find it in your heart to forgive me for writing about it instead of being there
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