Our time is limited

Our time is limited 

Enjoy this pear with me

Let our dreams carry us

No further than our see

We can tidy corners

And we can tend to hearts

Hollyhocks bloom this year

And we have daisy starts

Transparent statues our

Transparent statues our

Silver in golden light

Choc’lit, berries and cream

Our gelato delight

Laurie Anderson thoughts

Climb down on shiny webs

The pace of our walking

Into the day that ebbs

Choosing a happy life

Choosing a happy life

Flowers on the table

Standing in waterfalls

Pool where it’s more stable

It’s better to barrel

Rainbows are in the mist

Holding feels its power

Let go without a fist

We’re tassel to tassel

We’re tassel to tassel

But not in search of silk

No kernels are forming

To make sua bap or milk

Still striving for the sky

To signal a harvest

But shake out our anthers

To see who goes farthest 

Hearing with rubato

Hearing with rubato

A conversation lag

Processing the meaning

And feeling of the wag

Silently reciting 

Words and phrases with space

Then a hurried effort

To pick up the right pace

Purple like royalty

Purple like royalty

Harsh kingdom called cancer

Strange patches on the skin

No cure and no answer

A Gorbachev forehead

A Picasso drawn shape

The strangulation of

Life by a mutant rape

In these old-fashioned lines

In these old-fashioned lines

Is modern and abstract

The minimalist brush

The landscape of subtract

To see the dark night and

Know stars are hiding there

Or the depths of water

Behind the surface glare