Friday, March 28, 2025

No new beginnings here

No new beginnings here
Holding to fifty years
Of fight and hard progress
Gone! As fascism nears

And red breasted robins 
And magnolia trees
Are oblivious of
Truths falling to their knees 

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Push back the soil so that

Push back the soil so that
A fossil cannot form
Keep back the wind and rain
Or any passing storm

Even in my lifetime
Echoes are growing faint
Beauty succumbing to
Sediment and not saint

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Nein, nein, nyet, nyet

Nein, nein, nyet, nyet
We are in strong cahoot
The axis of evil
And the Nazi salute

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid 
As long as it tastes good
Fuck around and find out
And shoulda, woulda, could

Sunday, March 23, 2025

The button vacancy

The button vacancy
Long ago Christmas tree
The childhood souvenir 
That holds the love of we

Ships lost in sandy sleep
Like youth we can’t recoup 
Trapped in picture frames while
A thousand goodbyes loop

Friday, March 21, 2025

Offering my lowlands

Offering my lowlands
Let your overflow flow
Banking the rainfall or
The melting winter snow

Or call out from the top
When ascension is reached
Or be on the lookout
Of bottled message beached

Thursday, March 20, 2025

The stars are falling and

The stars are falling and
Red bleeding into white
Truth wilting under lies
Lost sense of wrong or right

The mother of freedom
Wailing as she watches
Her printed name on clothes
As the meaning botches

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Planning in the finite

Planning in the finite
It was always that way
The endless tomorrows 
Just a seemed far away

The future grows closer
Are the clock hands now mine
The curvature of Earth
Is looking like a line