drifting homewith the autumn leavescolored into the earth a spirit dreamas you walk along the lawnall covered in leaves this spot whereyou stand, moldedlike a statueand chiseled deepinto the earth my spirit laybeneath the autumn windinside a blanketof all your colors thoughts like a netwoven …
Read MoreQuiet in the Forests of Night
quiet in the forests of nightwatching with white eyesalone in the darknesswaiting for the one the pond was tornin ripples that marked the shoresilent as the woods around it—and the creak of the toads it was daythe wings yielded movementin the trees that came aliveand left us …
Read MoreSongs of a New Morning
from the shorewhere I can see it allas it floats away to some other landwhere the sun continues to shinefor centuries and treetopssway in the windfilling the grasswith wandering pollen * worn outlike a flag flownfor many years * alone herewhere your lips oncehad left a mark * onceI looked …
Read MoreA Game of Chance
talking to the ghost who speaks in tongues— flames indulged and torn in two * pulled down among the darkness from where I came and where I’ll go * a game of chance— you laugh in my face as you drown in the River Styx …
Read MoreAnother Day
far at seain the violent turnof the waves and silence—and out there somewherethe shores of home * imagesbuilt in mist—footprintson the journey home * windsand roots torn up—covered in the dressof a fallen queen * one blowand then I’m down—fallen tothe lightless depthsbetween the nowof life and eternity …
Read Morealone in the bush
alone in the bush where night is calling within the open sky as dark as the one I love I wander in the sand while cutting twigs in a path the bells have echoed somewhere in the night this midnight soup has broken up my …
Read MorePostcard to Manhattan
I drifted south to follow the call of birds, Then hunted around my former haunting grounds Out west, where all was won with sand-swept words, I think, once in the red-baked canyon towns. In the wind somewhere I hear a whistling stone And stop at …
Read MoreManhattan Sky
Ten years ago I saw you on a beachBeneath the empty sky, a silhouetteOf sun and sand, a dream within my reachBeside a patch of dawn-lit grass still wet. But in the great wide distance lies a dreamMixed in with siren sounds that echo still,A vow …
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