born neither young nor old,
not growing up or out,
completed and complete long ago,
sitting uninstalled on a throne of mountains,
a view across all kingdoms free, fair, and foul,
troubles are not troubled here,
rain falls and the grass grows,
streams to rivers to oceans flow,
here the [...]
glimpse that moment
only in arrears
when all-of-you forgot
the limits of all-of-you
the limits
of time and capacity
of wait and weight
of constraints and laws
the cellophane governance
that wraps everything , unwrapped,
and all you felt was
fresh raw unrestrained freedom
limitless creativity flowing
from head shoulders knees and toes
the unlimited happened [...]
there might be another way,
I hear friends whisper,
they talk gently,
(as if a breeze might snatch the truth away),
we can we can live lives flowing over,
I start simply, by mumbling thanks for what I have this day;
a friend , some bread, some sunshine,
that [...]
a breeze,
that barely causes candle flame to flutter,
nor fireside flame to quiver,
a breeze that has dawdled its way
across a warm salty ocean,
absorbing and wrapping itself in a perfume of life living,
a breeze that enfolds around like a blanket,
touching and sultry but, hardly [...]
always the pool,
poetry, essays, and movies
say the word ‘tranquil’,
and there’s a ubiquitous bloody pool,
involved,
and lurking deep,
below, the green and blue,
smoothness (‘like glass’ for goodness sake)
lies the crackeny-beast,
driving the evil new fascist submarine,
under,
the blackness of moonless night,
manufacturing surface pure reflection,
protection from,
the evil lying [...]
teeter-totter,
see-saw,
scales of justice,
eyes of the guiltless look on,
and implore,
the liberal conservative republican,
full of moral certitude,
calls for more freedom of choice,
with the arrogance of a have,
speaking for the have-nots,
left-right-out,
run run far away from the [...]
before tranquility, wait,
before silence, soon,
after the heavy rain has fallen,
as the wind walks away,
then the darkness parts her curtains,
the conductors baton raised as we
hold our breath, before we hear,
the hesitant birdsong speaking of life,
with [...]
