18.10.10

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Throw the television off the train
These tracks going where few
Dare to venture alone
Through fields and plains
Colored with the tide
Winds moving the orange and red

Bare branches push up up
Sticks once bearing life, now
Only their core with variety
Skinny arms reaching to rid of
Too many other skinny arms
And wrists and hands
Crowded around in the
Rust gathering fields of steel

Power lines along side
Run in up and down waves
On a corresponding journey to life
The curves float as
Motion gathering momentum
With each cusp

It’s time to go home
Track 22 promises to take us there
To a place where smells and places
Familiar to greet and
Space for straightening question mark out into
Confident exclamation
Trails of feelings laced from
Here to the same places these
Veins and roots go deep

Trails like those of streets
Defining a new life source
With radical speed and
Revolutionary ideas
Learning to grow in revolutionary patience

14.10.10


I’m scared
Maybe even terrified
Mostly worried
A bit freaked out
Because I can’t see it

The leaves are changing
From top to bottom
A mismatched metamorphosis
Black sky blending to purple treetops
Down to the orange and
Green melting
Toward the grass
Painted gravity

The smell and the sights
Comfort and overwhelm
Familiarity out of context
Discontent from what once made me full
A vision for what was lovely
Beautiful and true
Shadowed and transformed
Beyond recognition

Dialects and faces
Different forms of the same
Medium in extremes
Disguising the language
I’m tired of searching
The exploration has left me empty
Unsure of where to rest
To be

Settling down like the pieces of
Color falling
Trampled and damp from
Evening motion tossing me now
Where will I find it?
This changing season
Changing much more           
Than temperature and time

3.10.10

What is Left

Smiling down the sidewalk
Bright blue above the black and
Pink skirt flowing.
Right now in one of those
Times I feel like
I must be a secret 5 year old.

But footsteps,
I hear the falls.
The tread of my boots beating
Resounding against the concrete
Foundation upon which I stand.

Feeling now I'm really 50.
With the sores and pains and
Heart that has seen so much and
Felt a whole lot.

Enough that I want only
To tear it out and
Burst it open for all the
Love to be expelled and
Felt a whole lot.

These times and these lives
Blessed by our footsteps.
Let's leave them and a whole
Lot more.
Let's leave out hearts
Our hands
Our minds.

Let us work so hard that in
The end it would have mattered
As our footfalls pierce the quiet
Busy streets.