Cooperation is not of today Thought, the captive of dismay, Rendered an easy bent reed Prevailing winds decide my course Wait to debate – for a thoughtful force. My reason was clear on a recent day. None relate to what I say Can’t reckon or consider, Gone the will to deliberate There’ll be a better [...]
If I Had Known
If I had known how to balance a thing There should have been nothing to learn or bring From place to higher place through streets Desolate, abandoned black roads of grief The bottom of a hill seemed oh, so fearsome Enough to halt my aim toward home It was as if my legs were drilled [...]
I Saw My Spirit
I saw my spirit in the dawn, its silver There then there – on a sparrow wing. Shouting – Not flying so much as flexing Its power to divide the air – Slicing Between heartbeats unseen I saw my soul where tiny feet invaginate. Confess under duress of extended throat Its force – its mass [...]
I Knew You Once
I knew you once – Sometime – in some place Home of my heart Heart of my tongue
Defined in a Moment
From the moment I heard, watched him on the piano, my fate as devotee was sealed. a young age – I didn’t know The chords of rhythm and sound penetrate like the answer to an ancient question, the most enduring threads of self His body sways with the forces and power of what he now [...]
If The One
If the one you chose doesn’t Want your love, your self Is there anyone at home? How? I ask and where Be here – who never goes Be now – who never stays And the biggest endeavor You would fill with pride When secrets are mislaid (2006)
The Boy Plays
The boy plays as though laughter Will be banned across the land His toys arranged in organized Symbols of imagination and control In a milisecond the determined bravery Of his speed drama flattens And the gaiety of family cannot Lift itself higher than his mother’s caress He and his habits not discussed and smiled over [...]
Earth is a Horse
Earth is a Horse
Whose Language Here?
“If you have a bold and more self-confident temperament, you may be inclined to act too quickly, to be hasty and overcritical of others. “While you are not inclined to talk about your feelings to just anyone, you do not evade them in yourself. You need common-sense answers now that can be applied directly,” she [...]
