Out on a curvature

Out on a curvature

O’Keefe clouds standing still

Distant woods are ruffles

On the shoulders of till

Yet time became unknowns

Worry is care shaking

Answers formed as questions

Difficult in making

Falling drapes on windows

Falling drapes on windows

April flower missing

Words without sentences 

Lips not touching kissing

Summer solo picnic

Autumn gravity tow

Apples, leaves and cornfields

Falling like winter snow

In a great forget a

In a great forget a

Paradise precipice

As it once was before

The impending abyss

And before the great wake

Years gemming left to right

And around like a crown

We were royal in light

No want of a tough skin

No want of a tough skin

Building up a callous

Porous to particles 

Dawn to borealis

Bullied for my own good

That was their admission

But it was their way of

Granting their permission 

Stay far from the creases

Stay far from the creases

And further from the edge

Don’t disappear my love

To sediment or dredge

How can I comfort you 

Lift darkness and bring light

Illuminate beauty 

From within your own bright

Little dreams on paper

Little dreams on paper

Ephemeral heart strings 

With hopes as immature

As a newborn bird’s wings

Big thoughts in a small world

Before the anvil years

Kites and stars, boats and seas

Innocence and endears

All this rain all these days

All this rain all these days

Water rises but land

Like a heart absorbing 

More than it can withstand 

It’s not as easy as

A little thread or salt

Consider passing life

When it is Life’s default 

There is a wall we climb

There is a wall we climb

A flat Earth sea we cross

Arriving by stork and

Leaving by albatross

Each of us in known time

Are toe rings on footnotes

Running until outpaced

Then climbing into boats

Such a rare orchid with

Such a rare orchid with

Roots dug deep around bricks

Blooms like red kimonos

Taller than candlesticks

Both Nevelson and Neel

A bohemian chic

Montreal to Key West

Bloomingdale’s to boutique 

Expanding universe

Expanding universe

Fewer and far between 

Days growing shorter now

From dawn to twilight’s gleam

Time is of the essence

What is essence of time

Pulling, pausing, passing

A meaningless sublime

Girdling this lovely one

Girdling this lovely one

What is the need for this

An early ring barking

My sweetheart, let us kiss

We will be together 

Each nightingale to lark

My arms wrapped around you

But they cannot be bark

There’s a future unhad

There’s a future unhad 

An unopened present

We gifted ourselves for

A time thought evident

Only one sunflower 

Dizzy dancing in grain

They’re cutting down cornstalks 

In the imminent rain

It takes two steps to leave

It takes two steps to leave

Or one enormous leap

It is not radius

But circumference deep

Looking both left and right

For a new postage stamp

Home is where you arrive

It is not your base camp

Proud of you, proud of you

Proud of you, proud of you

It echoes when unsaid

Small tornadoes taking

The doors off the homestead

Roaming for comfort in

A harsh World without

Survival is staple 

And stronger with each bout

My fingers inside yours

My fingers inside yours 

My head inside your head

Your thoughts are flooding mine

I am breathing your dread

Are you sensing my might

Fueled by desire and angst 

Join the urgency to

Kick to the curb or shankst 

Jumping the autumn leaves

Jumping the autumn leaves 

Swerving to miss the tar

The knotty sycamore trees

Ending before the far

Memorial pin oaks

American flags in May

Cigar trees just beyond

A slope and a highway

No solution living

No solution living

Barefoot in the land mines

Fast pulsing on the front

Staring as the sun blinds

Naked on the surface

Vulnerable neck veins

Open to obliqueness 

And permanence of stains

After all the before

After all the before

Noise permanently sealed

Movement now flash lightning

And good company peeled

In a lasting moment

The swell like fog rushing 

The whispers from a choir

Eye of the storm brushing

What we are thinking is

What we are thinking is

The Life we are living

Addictions, depression 

Happiness, forgiving

Setting my course on change

The apple for acorn 

Catching dreams not chasing

Not too old to be born

Beware the lustrous pearl

Beware the lustrous pearl

The great irritant one

Beauty formed by layers 

Upon layers of spun

Don’t overlook the stone

It’s coarse exterior 

Inside may be a gem

Far more superior

Observing the living

Observing the living

Here with a bleacher view

Locust tree confetti

From the last party threw

Contemplating constants

Change has the longest tooth

Hope in the hydrogen 

In osmium, the truth

Breathing in the moments

Breathing in the moments 

The light is standing still

Saying we’ll remember

Always, always, until

Tomorrow comes and brings

Unknown shallows and depths

We cannot lose sight of

Each other in our steps

A broken pinwheel rests

A broken pinwheel rests 

Near the edge of a wood

No wind can make it spin

No life can have him stood

Falling leaf wallpaper

Eternal wallflower 

The soil black walnut stained

And the hard earth devour

Broken afternoon light

Broken afternoon light

In a child’s small drawing

Falling walnuts and leaves

A single road crawling

Between cornfields and fields

Of sweet peas and horses

From mansion to marker

Hard truth and of courses