unknown eclipse

I know.
nothing
is new
under that
orange sun.
in the black
of night
two oldies
bump
into eachother,
and i didn't know.

that's where i wanna be

if the
dr. seuss
drank a
goblet of
walden pond
while on the road,
that's where
i wanna be.

Pompeii picnic

nail slides
into wall,
picture
framed,
Pompeii picnic.

inthis

in this
life next,
or next
moment.
i pray
courageous practices
not
complacent prime-times.
subtract self/add services.
unbounded,
unhinged,
love
waltz me
through thee
holi threshold

Abundantly

violence
rained
downward
on me,
my
dream.
revisited;
venomous clouds
sped past
violently;
blackblack
drops,
dripdripdrip.
waves splashed
down
over me
abundantly

spinning; always spinning

spinning
dizzily,
fingers
across thee
globe.
[pause]..spin
topography [what are we]
we thought
we thought
some-thing up,
but simply
register a
billion on
our
frail isolated
fingers;
times seven. oh, humility.
native fur/colonial skin.
nowly;
isolate
and suburbanly beige.
perhaps,
that
faithful
paper boy
will soon
deliver (or revere; paul?)
local
words;          
a door-to-door.
sacred mounds.
beacon hills.

haveyoueverseen

have you
ever seen
the plaza
Vatican,
have you
ever seen
the pillar
Rome.
have you
ever seen
the temple
Mesopotamia,
Athens,
Asia,
Medina.
have you
ever seen
Golgotha
Via Dolorosa
Via Damascus Gate.
a spear
through a
pomegranate,
a needle and
a dromedary.

peering through

peering through
transcendental blinds,
a small club
in Cambridge MA.
flanking your
banks
of that
concord pond.
echoes
ripple
rattle through
golden
New England foliage.
divinity still
lingers
round words
once stated.
through dense fog,
your ferry still carries.

edging for

edging for
some scaffold
utopia,
babel of babel.
a ruler is always
a straight straight line.
circulation is orbital
all rivers are deltas,
pendulums are motion
emotions erratic tasers.
one foot, one river,
two
times.
remember that storm?
on the sea?
galilee

some space

some
space,
vast open.
control
shuts
that door,
bolted and locked.
an
endless horizon
allows space
time
to
flatten out
all
the days
beating
concerns.
unlock
that door,
fall into that
open sea.
endlessly silver
blinding
effervescent

drafting floor

third draft
throw away.
fourth,
a stray.
five through ten,
end.
the grass
now
brown,
pink pedals
too.
fertile
words
move

checking

checking
my beating
phone,
not this
heart;
attack.

primary colors

gaunt
slightly
gangly,            ash
sway
back
forth,
windy
lullaby.
few
clinging
before
destiny.
parting
leaf,                magenta
please
fall on
me;
living
souly
between
this earth
and
that sky.
                      primary colors.

sun arise

and
if i
had to
see
through
another's
eyes.

surprise.
surprise.

eat sleep
rise.
blood flesh
tears.

just
before that
sun arise

remind me
again. again.
again.

samaritan
samaritan
samaritan

whispering surprise

a
polling politics
on the backs
of division.
just how
weather-vain?

holy,
teach me
grace's
whispering
surprise.

my tongue
my sight
my hands
my allegiances

samaritan.
the other.
our brother
sister, mister
friend.

news can
be greater,
just check
the source.

did you laugh too

did you
laugh too.
it can be
replaced.
porcelain plastic paper.
usually
it's anger,
order and
corrections.
that too can
be replaced.