To have no care of wrong or right
July 10, 2017
To have no care of wrong or right
have no thoughts but decree,
soar and see as a hawk in flight.
Fly from dark into light
hold no sense of history
to have no care of wrong or right.
Wire your brain to plumes that fright,
know only what you need to be;
soar and see as a hawk in flight.
See the red as black and white,
kill then eat the flesh, be free
to have no care of wrong or right.
Practice not duty nor requite.
Call hemic cries of victory.
Soar and see as a hawk in flight.
Have no pretense but your might
Take no knowledge from the tree.
To have no care of wrong or right,
soar and see as a hawk in flight.
2006
diamonds within
July 6, 2017
i gaze into
encrusted skies
above
half moon
pond
diamonds
rippling in
the liquid.
how can
i know
beyond.
this sky feels
like home
the air
long ago
beckon
me on
and on.
armageddon oops
July 6, 2017
What if it all explodes,
the universe inside
punches through
overwhelming
all existence
above the breach.
What if bricks fly
as leaves in a firestorm,
cellos burn like straw,
fingers napalm
lips like paper.
Will you hail the second coming?
the moon! is your logo…not McDonald’s
June 21, 2017
there is no place
quite like the other
each valley
each plain
each mountain
each plateau
each
with its own
land forms
life forms
weather
and light
encased in a shared
halo of air
we are binding this earth in asphalt.
binding
and branding
we block the night sky
with our signs.
from
above
we look
like fire
speaking with tongue
August 8, 2013
We rationalize:
it is a jungle out there.
We possess the language
to scaffold a lasting peace.
Yet we continue to speak
reptilian.
television lives
August 7, 2013
reality is a corporate
Skinner box.
we scurry like rats
through a maze of aisles…
Must See TV
leads the way…
Winter Stars – by Sara Teasdale
October 29, 2011
Winter Stars
Source: Flame and Shadow (1920)
Illustration by Winifred Bromhall (1925)
Discovering Tyrants
July 5, 2008
In the days of antennae
atop wooden consoles –
we pulled in whatever
was out there.
Much of it,
old war footage:
tanks in mud
men on stretchers
cannon flashing
Zeros falling
and Der Fuhrer
pounding his fist
in truculent German
to adoring masses.
I would wonder:
what is he saying?
why is he so pissed?
why would people like him?
(Just as a non anglophone might think
when first seeing and hearing a Limbaugh)
“class warfare” accuses Rush disapprovingly
July 4, 2008
Our country was born of
contempt for privilege.
Yet today we are besmirched
for having those same
patriotic opinions.
Velcro – Unzipped
June 7, 2008
why a following
and not faith?
why signs
and no horizons?
why flesh
but no sight?
why not faith
and no following?
why not horizons
with no signs?
why not sight
but no flesh?
qazse 