Art

each moment dies continuously,
God turns over more soil.
the mind builds shadow bridges.
Nothing is connected to everything as a
child runs and jumps on a monkey-bars
and falls and cries.
it’s the risk we take
letting the heart
be the graveyard.
what we say

are the voices of

ghosts.

At the Palace Doors

We are the palace doors,

hinging upon the Night-side of Things.

Our crooked edges

shaped by the Jigsaw.

Only the broken follow the Jazz of our Curves.

Our Smiles can be on sideways

and they think we've become windows.

Our purple-wine chimneys

billow cavendish smoke,

go smooth down the throat,

and wrap around every ones' heads.

We pump our blood to the bed-chamber,

where we sleep and flutter

during dreams of Real Love.

What besieges and what retreats

is the mystery we live and don't know.

There is no table to calculate our worth.

Copyright 2009

A Monster Wrecks Again (I Missed You for Six Months)

Winter started in July
and the season lasted six months.
I would pull up the drive
hoping that spring would arrive each night.
My head netted with lucky stars,
shining to get there before midnight:
love without two people.

I would ride up the driveway slowly
each slow inch I crawled,
on all four tires,
a broken lock-ness serpent,
slimed in deep sludge,
I hoped to conjure you in stony detail.

What a beacon you once were
before we crashed down,scattered wreckage blown
into separate, distant and snowy woods.
the surviving wreckage in my neck
looked like me in boxers and a t-shirt
watching TV Land reruns.
floating on a vessel,
of chilly medicine and cold past-times,
without a thought of warm bathing or shaving.

That sharp ghost of you,
looping winds through icy branches,
dulled as I wrote my life with it.
I wrote faster to quietly wear it down
the friction brought the quick thaw.

The water rose in this frozen home of shared memories and trees.
Jesus walked across this new sea to me
I jumped from vessel to vessel faster,
of medicine and past-times,
praising him in the salty,
storming air while bailing;
praying to walk across the tempest water too,
after almost drowning.

But even while I walked with Him,
crawled on legs and tires,
jumped from vessel to vessel,
of medicine and past-times;
you didn't manifest.
So, I missed you clenched

from the constant hit of waters

for six, slow months;
before emerging from the wreckage
open-eyed and almost human.

Copyright 2009