everyone died in daylight
hiding behind the shadow of
the big crow on the fence slats
wild man of the town
my neck is stiff, the sky smoky
and we have ruined each other for
this world, there is no cure
but look how it shines
I will swallow that dirt
eat and trust it
let the shape take shape
in my gut
say hello anger
what do you say
come meet my friends
in the hot shade
2012
Granny's Chicken
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
A Massive Explosion
reason cause justification defense
a note explaining an absence
a list of excuses
each starting the same way
they put me in this place
I wouldn't stop twitching
grumbling, moaning I can't
I can't, I can't, I can't
the darkness is the cause
the ignorance that plunges headlong
into the depths of unknowable accident
the placecard nameless
2012
a note explaining an absence
a list of excuses
each starting the same way
they put me in this place
I wouldn't stop twitching
grumbling, moaning I can't
I can't, I can't, I can't
the darkness is the cause
the ignorance that plunges headlong
into the depths of unknowable accident
the placecard nameless
2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Arcangela
this evening we shall see stars
and Copernicus and the Spheres and all orbits and circles
and the frozen sun
beneath the black veil of heaven
that we shall learn -- stars, this evening
which when we reach with eyes of wonder
to escape our globe
shall then bind up our hearts
whose memory shall be a weight upon me
an echo of its dawn beyond the great chain of galaxies
until there is one light and one discovery
and one voice
only it and thus the weight
the full moon
2012
and Copernicus and the Spheres and all orbits and circles
and the frozen sun
beneath the black veil of heaven
that we shall learn -- stars, this evening
which when we reach with eyes of wonder
to escape our globe
shall then bind up our hearts
whose memory shall be a weight upon me
an echo of its dawn beyond the great chain of galaxies
until there is one light and one discovery
and one voice
only it and thus the weight
the full moon
2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
An Egg
wunderbar wunderbar
what the world gave up
against a clear sky tonight
with eyes closed, alone
(always here all along)
turning my head all night
whirling away like a dervish
gasping for the truth of this night
the perfect truth
coughing from the chest like a sermon
coughing on Augustine's pages
2012
Atlantis
Then the journey
the journey to openheartedness
on the backs of lakes and rivers and the ocean Orca
that descends.
2012
the journey to openheartedness
on the backs of lakes and rivers and the ocean Orca
that descends.
2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The German
bringing his luggage into my mind
and the empty home of mind and heart
dropping at my feet what brings
truth yet must soon take leave
claimed by a voice that does not know
this luggage heart and mind be patient
2012
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Are you full tonight,
my white rising dark-sided moon?
How full she looks,
this sister of this brother...
I will catch it with a fishing net.
Rock and dust and craters.
Then I will stand and reach reaching
through the Holy of holies,
the circling barren star-gazing drifter,
Cardinal Bellarmine.
Oh Orsini forgive me the soul of a man
who has followed the fading heavens,
roamlight blinded,
and afford me a final
wordless silent moment here.
2012
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