Trees
Posted April 26, 2009 – 2:31 pm in: VerseThe sunsome longer days
Are warming frozen trees,
The ancient steady rays
Becoming nature’s keys
Unlocking fluid flow
Within Earth’s giant plants.
When southern breezes blow
These creatures start their dance
Of botanic celebration.
Subtle sweet beasts of green
Anticipate without cerebration;
Make beauty not knowing they are seen.
Affirmation
Posted April 21, 2009 – 5:07 am in: VerseYou wrote these lines for me.
You placed them here,
on this paper,
years ago.
Their ink glistened for an instant,
moist from your warm pen,
then dried forever, for me.
The vibrant blue curves and loops,
circles and hooks,
are evidence of your existence,
proof of my sanity.
I loved you when you wrote them
and love you still,
though I didn’t tell you then,
and cannot tell [...]
Men
Posted April 14, 2009 – 9:00 pm in: VerseIn those days when each moment
brought a fresh impression,
a new opportunity to exercise
analysis and judgment,
there was an era
when I served my apprenticeship
in the craft of manhood.
The strong and ancient compulsions
of lust and desire,
appetites and arousal,
were easy to know
though difficult to control.
Instincts are the stuff
that religion fights.
With a creed, you can subdue any sin.
Some lessons must [...]
Digital
Posted March 5, 2009 – 6:05 am in: VerseDigitus meant finger
to the Romans
and gave us our word digit
which means finger too,
but as years went by
became a word for number,
since fingers count things
(crudely but ably).
It takes most of the digits
of one hand
to write numbers on paper
or even letters for that matter -
individual and epistolary.
People used to write letters
and you could hear them do it,
scribbling [...]
Vaporizer
Posted March 3, 2009 – 9:13 pm in: VerseOne sleepless night I had a dream
About a shapeless beast.
It had no head, no eyes, no tail,
No teeth with which to feast.
I heard it, though. It drifted in
Beneath my bolted door
And whistled through the cracks between
The boards upon my floor.
I filled with fear. My once-still room
Now whispered with the hiss
Of gentle, wispy, deadly drafts
Intruding like [...]