(2013)
I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow
Seasonal ill’n Ado, ado, soft achoos Cool wind seeps through me
A blank white tablet Fuzzy buzzing silences Click, click, click, and yet That single black divider keeps Blinking an endless cycle
Tonight I awoke to an orange hori… one that I had never greeted befor… It took me back, to the days of ce… and disregard for the ticking of c… Part two:
Delicate surprise From behind blind-folded eyes That glint of glitter Sprinkle, sprinkle, floating down We reach out, we grasp, we drink
Red and orange glitter Dancing delicately high Above winding paths Falling to the great grey streams Falling for grace, or duty?
The words are muffled and shifting… The pounding won’t stop, the fraye… I hold onto a thread, a little blu… The tension is mine; it is a pain… Frenzied energy drains from my fin…
Life’s obligations A daunting sea of turmoil With crest after crest I’ll hide in this briny shell Till the tide forgets my name
Perplexity breathes Into the hearts of all men In heart beat matters We shy our true intent like An elephant in the vent
Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest
Once my beating heart Matched steel drum lines to-to-toe Teaching metronomes But now my beat has fallen Into syncopated depths
Such an empty sky Countless pensive glances are Over and over Swallowed swift, before their time If only I could keep them
To hide in plain sight Something we all yearn for, but Our differences Do not belong in the mud For mud cannot be polished
The mind of a girl That swirling vertex of bright Is unreachable So we put up these steel walls When we could have built a bridge!
Howling and wailing Like the vast October winds Delightful to find Many who share the same chord Sing till frogs jump in our throat…
