the way it looks from here,

a slow, sweet disintegration,

 for the coming-into-being:

babies laugh, victims scream,

eyes light up, eyes go dim,

time stops.

starts again without

notice or inclination.

 

death,

time & space delayed:

instant of impact,

dance gives way to

rest, rest gives way to dance

without feet.

but, the Music continues

Forever.

 

certain encounters sing on:

soundings of memory,

voice of a mother,

relationships,

twisting of leaves

on cool wind,

ice cream truck music,

wild sex,

honest Love,

relative greatness;

crowd noise crescendos to Heaven,

decrescendos to quiet fulfillment.

games balls & battle scars

taken home.

 

future is a moment at a time,

of a time to come;

existence is a flatfooted stance

when that punch lands.

 

all former impressions

eradicated.

 

the page,

otherwise,

is geological; topological:

a glance down

to see your bare feet

walking the bare dust.

 

God is somewhere in the spaces

between.

 

reader lives the page,

reader makes the meaning,

reader becomes a microcosm,

reader chooses the end.

 

level the vertical moment.

horizontal history sliced into bite-sized

burrs that cut as you swallow:

lover walks away,

last breath is taken with dignity,

first breath is screamed indignantly.

conclusion: dignity is a well-told lie;

a crazy glue to hold

oneself together unnecessarily.

 

matter matters little.

gunshot to ribbon snap:

poem face glitters.

journey fingers glide.

search is as natural

as blooms . . . found. lost again.

 

a good death is the fireworks.

love: the lingering aftertaste.

 

one last wish:

to die by way of eating the bear,

instead of being eaten by the bear.

barely missed.

deeply kissed.

goodnight.

 

glorious goodnight.

Reviews

[OT]

I'm with Ed - you pack philosophies almost - secretly wedged into a line - "dance gives way to
rest, rest gives way to dance
without feet." - loved that!

[Kenneth The Poet]

Epic work, and I mean epic.

[Ed Hart]

you stick huge ideas in little lines so slick they almost go unnoticed

[Robin]

one more song man , at least one more