The crow flies with the dove

The crow flies with the dove

The past is present tense

What to do with my regret

Remorse my consequence

To have and to hold

Still so much to cherish

While all of this is here

Yet all is here to perish

No bridges or roads

No bridges or roads

I circle in flight

Day in and day out

From dark to daylight

The moon and the sun

Are never at rest

Only the waves

Are brought to a crest

So short on this side

So short on this side
We're living behind
This side of the equation
The less than equal sign

Even old trees get
The short end of the stick
Too much candle
Not enough wick

The long limbs of the trees spread (2nd version)

The long limbs of the trees spread
Beneath a blue sky with planes
Where looking down it could be said
There's the rivers, the roads, the trains

The Universe wears a huge skirt
And somewhere in its folds
I love life though it passes me by
Days into weeks, into months, into years going by

A flock of birds like black fireworks

A flock of birds like black fireworks

Dart into a twilight sky

While hundreds of Canada geese point

Towards the East and fly

Just beside the road I see

This form of death, this slaying

What tragedy has happened here

These six geese a laying

So this is Life

So this is Life

From the root

Pretty flower

Ugly fruit

Twenty years seems forever

Twenty years seems forever

Not so when counting seasons

Twenty winters to the never

Seems shorter to my reasons

Twenty winters yet to go

Who cares about the Spring

I’m dreaming of the winter snow
And not the blossoming

I wish Winter would hold on

I wish Winter would hold on

I need four months not three

But here comes the dreaded Spring

That asks too much of me

That asks too much of all

It pushes forth the green

And teases me with morning frost

When I want a Winter scene

I've stepped aside, stepped back

I’ve stepped aside, stepped back

I see life at a distance

Not caught in chasing time

No longer feeling a resistance

Hoping Winter lasts weeks longer

Not longing for the Spring

Hiding in my clothes, just hiding

To see what hibernation brings

I live in a house with blonde wood

I live in a house with blonde wood
And pink tiles that are lit
By sunlight through white shudders
Found by one cat sitting Egypt

I could have held you in my arms

I could have held you in my arms
Instead I held you down
My heart fell off my sleeve
Carl's fog fell on the ground

Photographs from Hubble
Bring awe of stars and space
How small we are and fog
On paws without a trace

Outside Carl's fog

Outside Carl's fog
And on the inside I fell
How came I to the second
Definition of held

I held you down not closely
Millions praying to St. Jude
Countless, worthless prayers
There's nothing they can do

My memory of you

My memory of you
This is what I know
How is it I held you
More so, let you go

Carl Sandberg's fog
On the ground lay flat
Your name forever called
My memory is that

They knocked your lights out

They knocked your lights out
While I was holding you down
The second definition of held
My arms did not wrap you around

Now I know

Now I know
What I'm about
I've etched my mark
Into the Shout

The structure that
I have built
Is evidence
The world is tilt

Love is not an infinite

 Love is not an infinite
One plus one is two
Reality, the definite
When my eyes see you

Friend, respond to my voice

Friend, respond to my voice
I sing and you are here
Angry when I leave you
Though I am always near

And in the heart, the love
Without language, without thought
That travels on air
Replenishing without draught

I know my life will alter

I know my life will alter
I can wed myself to me
And the changes like the waves
Will be folding on the sea

I went to my highest point

I went to my highest point
To find the infinite
I touched outerspace
But couldn't live in it

So at the start of far
Searching for the smallest small
Beneath a galaxy of stars
Is dust and particles

This is the overwhelm

This is the overwhelm
The swelling of the well
My heart goes out and out
Yet never leaves the shell

The ocean is a raindrop
A sun is just a spark
Left reaches and touches right
Like light that goes to dark

Sad to see so much faith

Sad to see so much faith
Spent energy on useless prayer
The worthlessness of words
Wasted on an earless air

Everyday I dream of the Empire

Everyday I dream of the Empire
So many years away from there
Alas, I'm standing on it
Staring out at air

I can feel the upward drafts
Can they hold me up, I ask
Suspending me and cycling
And to gently throw me back

As I search the sky for why

As I search the sky for why
You sniff my eyes and kiss
You do not wonder why nor try
To explain one bit of this

No aliens or savior
Not wanting for eternity
In the moment, this very moment
We touch serenity

The two of us are holding

The two of us are holding
While a comet is up there
As if someone pulled and hurled
The moon's last silver hair

And your hair is thin and fine
Our universe is mapped
In thousands of years from now
Only the comet will be back

To fall within the outlines

To fall within the outlines
Of where a shadow falls
Is to confine oneself
Inside the highest walls