Curiosity comes

Curiosity comes

With so many questions

And prizes knowledge to

Serious intentions 

Imagination has

Infinite resources

Untapped or unbridled 

And no college courses 

Radiating outwards

Radiating outwards

With the compass point stuck

Stars not more distant the

Universe more untuck

Playing the dealt hand with

All that I can muster

Gain knowledge and wisdom

Not self-filibuster

The answer is live with

The answer is live with

Purpose where there is none

Accept nothingness yet

Grow beneath this bright sun 

The rural butterfly 

Beautiful and unknown 

Thriving and existing 

But not so far from stone

Count beans and loose buttons

Count beans and loose buttons

Word flurries, rain coming

Alive versus living

Creating or summing

To eek out a living

But reeking with abstract

The uncharted waters

Or totals that don’t match

So many hearts beating

So many hearts beating

I must make room to grow

Wildflowers are cropping

Water resources low

Escape totality

Find a nature retreat

Befriend a rural thought

Replenish then repeat

Oceans have no shadow

Oceans have no shadow

Waves cannot offer shade

With trees stopping sunlight

And sand a rawhide suede

And air like a garment

Wrapped shoulder to shoulder

With a blue scarf knotted

On a yellow boulder

Looking for something new

Looking for something new

Perhaps it could be old

Or something avant-garde 

A truth that can’t be told

Revive a forgotten

Ah, the gesture you made

Or learn a new subject

Pick up a language aid

Tomorrow has allure

Tomorrow has allure 

The future is honest

The moment at hand will

Shine or become tarnished 

Cornstalks or poppy stems

We travel our own must

Arrival or not to

A better self or bust

Beauty and nothingness

Beauty and nothingness 

The gaps between the blur

Time and togetherness 

Amass without endure

The giving and sharing

Day mountains, years range

Our growing like a grove

Pollination exchange

In a winter sunlight

In a winter sunlight

A magnolia dream

Crocuses pushing up

Salmon jumping upstream

White clouds stretched like taffy

Across a bright Spring sky

And then the wake up call

As snowflakes start to fly

We cheated and got caught

We cheated and got caught

All our answers the same

Three of us copying

Well, except for our name

Taken out of class to

Point out our wrongdoing

And forced to keep our grades

For life all enduring

Hobo on a hillside

Hobo on a hillside

No other hill in sight

Echoes only outbound

And inbound only light

A transient trail up

From vagabond valley

An orphaned Orpheus 

Broader than back alley

Left to experiment

Left to experiment 

Little of this or that

Unexpected results

A butterfly or gnat

Envelopes of days here

Curiosity street

Ruffles in the cosmos

Just waiting to be pleat

Feeling so far removed

Feeling so far removed 

Ladeling yesterdays

Tangents and concentrics

Parting separate ways

My own changes within

Rising from the Orlop

Steady footed, surer

Intensified unstop

My Good Samaritan

My Good Samaritan 

Freely opened the door

After hearing a plea

That I couldn’t ignore

I allowed this pirate

Set anchor in my heart

They only saw value 

And not beauty and Art

The words not finding air

The words not finding air

Paper airplanes grounded

In the belly of stars

I’m left here dumbfounded

Living in the circles

Time cornered and punching

The restless unresolved 

The purpose pure hunching

Waiting for the next storm

Waiting for the next storm

Like an aging oak tree

The storm that will topple

Me horizontally 

The blue jay and the crow

Completely unaware

But the woodpecker knows

And truly doesn’t care

My mother bearing gifts

My mother bearing gifts

With her inward cyclop

Her love paint by number

Her heart in an icebox

Absence of empathy

Arms hugging like a web

From the day I was born

In the cold month of Feb

No cloud breaks edge to edge

No cloud breaks edge to edge

A minimalist gray

And the silver lining

Is matte graphite and fray

A dip into puddles

Can the ripples show light

Like breaking waves behind

A large vessel at night