Wednesday, April 25, 2012

water water everywhere

three leaking fingers
bound around a totem pole
tugging along a roman rickshaw
coiled around feet and hinges
hissing holding desperately
as if a broken branch boat
on the edge of a trickle
will go anywhere
as if the ocean cares
after the perfect pearl
it helped create

Sunday, February 19, 2012

the resistance

 
dameherr distress disaster
illness injustice
thrives and weeps
burns and screams
for to have lived without
some inc after the name
red and runny
the dotcom or the wikipage
the hundred likes, the bottom lines
no link untouched
no pixel free
the promise of heaven behind
firmly closed eyes
leading to tomorrow
is to live without
living today
 

Sunday, February 12, 2012

kitschy ku

 
working the urbanoid undrama
under several watchful eyes
waiting for superglue
between passion and trade
to congeal
 

Thursday, February 02, 2012

snow

 
the treasure is the final promise
beginning and end foretold
the journey is the junket selling
half the price for half the soul
it may well be grand progression
but if you're not fully sold
through the driving storm
a darkness bursts aflame
into magic, threading onyx silence
a matching night beyond the walls
on the glass melting
is a tiny perfect snowflake
 

Thursday, November 24, 2011

limestone song

 
I know it must all be perfect, and I know it won't, I won't, you won't. The high notes of Beethoven or possibly Abheri ought to fill me with feeling, but my gut only turns with vague distaste. Whats mine is yours now, and always.

Someday you can judge for yourself what your true sound will be, what depth and motion, feeling and silence, really mean to you.

For now, move with me. In complex sidesteps with REM and Coldplay, gently derisive on Dire Straits, lonely with Suzanne Vega, and wildly furious with Metallica and Rammstein, take these breaths with mine, double them as you will, now, soon, your own time will come.

And yet, someways in the future, somedays, your irregular shape and mine shall join shadows and be, just like today, close and inseperable, and others, we will move ten paces apart and shoot.

We will not agree often, my aged heart will never quite match the speed of your quick new, but I hope we will deal as equals, with respect and agreement of our arcana.

I don't know what is your symbol or signature, but I know I must impose my will for now. When comes the painful day of your own mind, I hope I can be graceful with my hands, and I hope we will have taught you the science and art of flight well.

The fear is now receding, I can already feel the heaven and hell incumbent with you. Thank you for giving me this time, I know merely the experience is a privilege. I promise never to make you my one true love, or my only reason to live. I also promise to love you very much