Being part of not apart from is to turn against the turning world and time in favor of the third eye wisdom, the living wonder of one divine nature God-Spirit-Buddha word or sound Oh say what it is… (It is peace with all.) Can that be Be / cause you are a part of all, […]
Category: Love
Seer in the Wilderness
Before dark or star rock or water before the wings of the sky floated over the earth I was called to a calm that mimics stillness but is eternal motion to stillness that mocks death because it wakes in the womb of dawn Because the sun is the eye of an immense bird that flies […]
The Voice
If I spoke from the heart and you could hear You could ride the sound Back to the beginning and see you who you are If I spoke from the heart, my tears would be a river Running to the sea Into an ocean of sweetest water If I spoke from the heart, my joyful […]
Dreaming The Old Man
Through slanting doors and broken windows odd furniture in dim rooms old books and roses rotting with age I follow you, charts and crumpled maps and paper glitter like a lost hope– Sudden sky and wide water reeds along a shore under a silver willow you call to the other side. No limb or vine […]
The Danger of Transgender People
Why Transgender People are Dangerous Never mind the roller coaster ride, you’re on it now, can’t get off It’s gravity’s got a terrible side got nothing to do with God at all God doesn’t really give a toss if you die next week from a simple fall God damn gravity that […]
Nosegay
What Chopin wanted most was to die in George Sand arms, on his deathbed all he got Was a nosegay of violets She left at his door When her daughter turned her away– People can be such shits. He wrote a friend on his deathbed, “She promised me I would die in her arms.” How did […]
A Truth You May Have Forgotten
There is a moment before the sound the Great Om, Before Siva turned on one foot Before Krishna was blue and Tara green, Before the making of Lucifer, the heavenly war The gravity of heaven and the drifting fire of hell Before the holy breath blew into Man Before Adam’s dream of Eve Before Cain […]
Be It as You Imagine
Wherever under the sky I walk there’s something of you in the earth, stone, sage, air, living river and high as the hawk can fly vapor, mist, rain you are, sunlight moons give back to me. Be sure, all I touch holds you. Memories dream in the land where the ancestor-spirits breathe their souls imprinted […]
The Wave & The Wind
Rikuzentakata Ôfunato Kuji swept away No trace they were ever there Otsuchi Miyako Yamada Sôma Namie Minamisôma Onagawa Kesennuma Natori Ishinomaki gone, The earth gave and the sea Has taken away Banda Ache Two hundred thirty thousand Gone in the Indian Ocean wave. I am thinking of Phuket on Boxing Day The waters receding so […]
Things We Cannot Name
For JD How long it took to know, however hard we wished There was no return, no starting over for us – With an ocean between I recall a day in California The fire of summer inside Cool blessing of water nearby Our spirits falling to the clarity of desire and later Waist-deep in mountain […]
