Sunday, May 17, 2026

T-storm

same in essence

the tiny sparks

seen in the dark

when static shines

in fabric friction

the great energy

that rolls in sound

and flashes light

when the turning

of the earth rock

pulls at the ocean

levitating in the air

and the same spark

illuminates the sky

to behold what flows

through everything

in grandest display

a show of bolts and

music of the gods



 

In the numerical ocean

nine is the mirror

mine is the nearer

to your breath

holding the two mirrors

your birth is given

the moment I hold 

nearly as dear as

a time of two dimes

and if all this was true

I'd somehow make it through

and give into you

for you to count 

the fingers on my month

that's half of your own

and offer up to you

my crown and my throne


Saturday, May 16, 2026

Mid-May distractions

those thoughts of

liliums replacing alliums

means someone may be

middle aged that is

if that someone lives

to be the ripe old age

of ninety, nine, a good

year it was to complete

high school and live

a surreal moment when

congratulations met

graduations, a time

of year for towns to

get wiped off the map

and more than a whirlwind

meets schedules for 

grandparents and estranged

relatives, it's all relative

but merely a distraction


Thursday, May 14, 2026


 

Your sun sign

you are that circle
that peers through 
the drifting clouds
angry with thunder

you are that orb that
warms my flesh when
the chilling wind
blows through me

you have left your
mark upon my chest
in mid winter visits
and evening routine

you have slumbered
within my heart and
I have found a home
within your own

you will never be
alone through life
for our souls are in
ever conversation

you will always have
my offerings of peace
of joy, pleasure, strength
but most of all, love

Heads up

just above my head

hovers a swarm of gnats

notes bouncing up and

down a music scale

unheard by these ears

further out from these

little songbirds flutter

through arms of trees

and maple seeds are

flung by the breeze

propelling through air

to find their retreat

higher yet the raptor

surveying as it sails

through the gray waves

of the mirrored ocean

and my arms reach out

to wish the rise above

or the fall from earth

into whatever exists

far beyond any of this


Wednesday, May 13, 2026


 

Familiar dreams

getting an answer

for a question

never asked

is being in a dream

you remember

did I walk into

the corridors of

your psyche last night

is that where I was

when I killed the wolf

that had jumped the fence

or did you walk into

my hall of reflections

with the writhing alligators

being handed to the woman 

behind the desk

I'm not really sure anymore

who's responsible

for any of the thoughts

or any of the dreams

as you are always in them

and where you are

I long to linger


Green Lynx

tiny green spider
a tickle on 
my shoulder
somehow you
tagged along
I picked you up
from who knows
where
to wear as a pin
momentarily
for you have
places to go
and tinier bugs
to eat
no question
on how
no judgement
on who
just a wish
of safe travels
into the air
on silk paths