I Woke One Day and Was a Man I’d wondered what it would be like to be a stranger in a body rented from God, cargo damaged more each day. I thought being a man would mean freedom to go wherever I wanted, do whatever I liked to do, not bound by the long leash […]
Category: The Future
The Scheme of Things
In a breakneck chase the moose calf goes down, a grizzly devours. wolves stalk for hours the bison get away. the pack sustain on voles and mice mostly go hungry a crow eats the nestlings in a robin’s nest still robins abound. green turtles on a beach lay eggs swim off in the deep. all […]
In Praise of Fisherman
Blessed are the fishermen that free the humble pelican From sinker, line and hook Tangled in a beak, Holy men are these who catch fish and release The insensitive prey, cold-blooded are they delicious but dumb, killing them ‘s no fun. Praise the poor fishermen, forget the pod of dolphin Driven into coves Slaughtered by […]
A Few Bad Apples?
The War on Americans. Attacks on the Free Press. A war is over when hostilities end and people become civil again. The Civil War never ended. Racism in America is due, in part, to the inability of Americans to end the violence of war. So it goes on with talk of a second Civil War […]
You Are Not Who You Think You Are
Look to the heavens, see what is happening You are not who you think you are. Everything in and around you The cosmic unfolding Of countless events Appearing, disappearing Rising and falling Right now, now again… That is all you are, Beyond comprehension all that is– Keeping this in mind While you continue a separate […]
When One is More than Three
for Fred Longworth The pure energy of choice, the exercise Of wisdom and will between the extremes Of hatred and love, apathy or action, war Or art, the painful year, a joyful moment, Only mind dreaming our future into being: All that is made by man, woman or child Every toy, house, bridge, bullet or […]
