Forward into frontiers

Forward into frontiers 

Empty handed running

Staring miles ahead in

Both cloudy and sunning

Still higher fruit unripe

Destinations dangling

Journeys without courses

With arrivals spangling 

Youth when clouds were thrown nets

Youth when clouds were thrown nets

Keeping me from the stars

I held myself back from

Treetops let alone Mars

And now the clouds throw nets

Like rope ladders to climb

I granted permission 

To myself in my prime

Yearning for a never

Yearning for a never

Stopping short of mid-hope

Backtracking to safety

Up the slippery slope

No greater or less than

Accepting the hard math

The equal sign is truth, no

Matter the varied path

Where do birds go to die

Where do birds go to die

Their wings do not ascend

No carrier pigeon's

Death notices to send

If not for reflections

Of open land and skies

In glass panes, I would think

That a bird rarely dies

In this spreading white light

In this spreading white light 

Out of focus snowflake 

Overwrought world spins with

Both sunset and daybreak

Too connected for peace

Unsocial Walden’s Pond

Our minds should be rural

Fully wooded and frond

Suffering the details

Suffering the details

Like children out of place

Animals in shelters

Misaligned outer space

There’s nothing on TV

This traffic light is long

Are we out of ice cubes 

I bought this for a song

Vastness becoming small

Vastness becoming small

Dismissing ventures far

As some extravagance,

Needless or just subpar

 

Staring out windows at

Stars or the busy street

Looking left and right where

Mars and the stoplight meet

Inhaling tornadoes

Inhaling tornadoes

Only to keep the peace

Absorbing earthquakes and

Ironing out the crease

Denying emotions

Celebrations or grief

Accounting for actions

Not outlined in the brief 

Fingerprint, seed to tree

Fingerprint, seed to tree

Is life an unravel

So much seems predestined 

As we rock to gravel

From the choice of journey

Blooms we self-discover

And the love in seeing

The blooms of another

The colors are fading

The colors are fading

Our memories are bleach

Like the flags on the moon

All white and out of reach

The head of a pushpin

Coordinates of here 

In the saturation

Before the disappear

Rope then braid and now thread

Rope then braid and now thread

No hope of jazz or dance

Abandoned postage stamps

How small the world of chance

Looking at the blank spots

Behind and up ahead

Breathing seeing breath in

This moment frozen said

Dignity that digs deep

Dignity that digs deep

Porous from the first ring

Neither stature or size

Given title nor king

It isTruth as a verb

Maneuvering the course

Crowded intersections

Non derivative source

Wi-fi tower blinking

Wi-fi tower blinking

Like a land-locked lighthouse 

Highway hawks perched high at

Every other farmhouse 

No rain and no sunshine

The cornfields without corn

The sky without blue and 

Clouds like sheep clothing shorn

The Given slowly takes

The Given slowly takes

Trees too early for fall

The threadbare and worn or

The shrinking of a tall

Beautiful peonies 

Spent flowers are dropping 

Petals like playing cards

With no way of stopping 

Deconstructed abstracts

Deconstructed abstracts

Van Gogh stars unravel

Thumbs up and out but thoughts

Unwilling to travel

Out of the reach of calm

Winter season question

Give it time for answers

Too many to mention 

When the wind stops blowing

When the wind stops blowing

Or simply passes through

When the sky is cloudy

Or cloudless and all blue

When the day is ending

And night has its debut

When day has an encore 

I am thinking of you

Yellowed pages aging

Yellowed pages aging

Rippled unprecedent

Title read, pages skimmed

Summarized testament

Beaches with umbrellas

Battle sites quiet hills

Misery and meaning 

Gift shops and postcard stills

Momentum unwanted

Momentum unwanted

Nor open-and-shut case

No checkered flag or clock

Signs of a finished race

Lover do not sleep well

Do not burrow so deep

That dreams deflate and break

Fences where sheep can leap