Monthly Archives: April 2011

Several Friends Stopped By…

Several Friends stopped by in my dark hour. There I was…in the hole:Apathy – looks down into the hole, with those big blue eyes to ensure me everything would be just fine…, she shrugs, and she wanders off.Sympathy arrives – … Continue reading

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Winding To a Point

A child stooped low and picked up a stoneAbout yay big, with a rounded edgeHe could find no reason to put it in his pocketSo he jumped to his feet instead. The boy’s eyes narrowed as he thought of this stoneAbout … Continue reading

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Flesh

Earth pulls up its collar as the sun setsAll things cooling, creak,the most quiet is flesh. Pouring life through the waist of leaded glass,Countless grains two souls, in the talusAs fabrics glide, fiber and meshWarmth and velvetThe most soft is flesh Peeling … Continue reading

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Byzantine Kiss

Her whispers writhe upward, warming my lipsChased gently by thoughts, and fingertipsWhich pulse over keys, sewing words onto fieldsOf love thirsty parchment, tenderly peeledFrom shavings off banyan trees, twisted in timeWoven from tangles of roots and vinesThat glimmer and glide … Continue reading

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Jim Harrison

…still smelling like Athit, I found myself awakening in first class next to the recluse, Jim Harrison. Jim Harrison was planetary from the moment I saw him. He is a thick and somewhat round man, dense enough to have his … Continue reading

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timeless through the ages

What is timeless through the agesIs conveyed in the pagesEtched in stone or vinylAnd what has a beginningWill reach many ends, but noneIs ever finalThe hope you seekIn the words I speakIs far deeper than meaning can reach,The paradox isThat … Continue reading

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TREE RINGS

  Our moments collect in concentric rings about the nexusOf a first embrace, adorned with Autumnal colors and scents –We lovers blend, cupped gently below the stir of flecks and dapple.Each leaf high up quivers in the bouquets and knows … Continue reading

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Resonance and Reticence of Words

Subsonic and thickPoetic obstinate wordsPedaling their legs in the airLike wild restive horses,Thrash and writhein dry rotted halters,Dismounted riders, edgyEyes flash from shadowy corners of stalls,Hold fast to your leads.And I’ll stay fast on the keys…as I sit here with … Continue reading

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