Dean : Writing

        Gossamer Breastplate

Gossamer Breastplate

A Poem by Dean


There are the walls of flesh that hold us fastupon this devil's island of an earth,deceptive paradise of blue and greenthat calls on birth to bond us,..
          My Heresy

My Heresy

A Poem by Dean


I like my God much better than the onewho made his home up in the stratosphereand favored us with visits now and then,harrumphing down below about the..
        August 16

August 16

A Poem by Dean


Ignition...onand in perhaps an hour, it was over.One slash of time made ridiculeof caution, for the silence that he chosewas not enough; he hated it,c..
       Denial

Denial

A Poem by Dean


Too much the rapture of an earthbound springprevails, surpassing lovers' agony,too many willows full of glory streamlike fountains there along the pat..
        Where Time Is Not  (in English and then in French)

Where Time Is Not (in English and then in..

A Poem by Dean


It is a journeywhen I meditate,and at its peak I findthat I may reach into perfectionthough I may not return with it.nor in my altered consciousnessam..
        His Last Concert

His Last Concert

A Poem by Dean


I wasn't there to hear the choirthough once I sang with them,but I still think of Hollidayat closing--cadence coming upand his conducting stern, impas..
       A Change of Perspective

A Change of Perspective

A Poem by Dean


How like a child to know that being freeto taste the wind, is the unbidden source of art, of what life means, that joy is there.How fair, a thousand w..
        Dialogue With a Ghost

Dialogue With a Ghost

A Poem by Dean


To the unseen and unknown presence that I madeI pour out all the doubt, the hopeless pemutationsof my thought, the dark intangibles, ideas strong enou..
        Solitary Thoughts in my Room

Solitary Thoughts in my Room

A Poem by Dean


Solitary Thoughts in my Room