Baraka

legs

doctors have a way 
(of handing over news like this)
his eyes skewer me 
(through and through)
breach my skull and pin me to the air

yet somehow, the floor seems closer

doctors have a way
(of lending you their steady gaze)
as they grocery list how the world just ended

My first thought is that she will never dance again.
.No. My first thought is that she will.

Eyes pinned
I stay afloat in a sea of shock
and dare to watch his lips move

Disbelief 
and
faith
are
sliced
by
the 
same 
sword

and I am several inches closer to the floor

severed
(like your spine)

having legs makes no sense now
pinned to the air, like this

The Hush

This is the hush of earth as she's spinning
Here's the lament of yesterday gone
This is the sound of your dream as its dying
The death rattle rhythm that sings like a song

Here is the day feasting on darkness
Here is horizon swallowed by night
Here is the hammer that fell from the gods
never to strike with yesterday's might.

Here is the ocean moving like quicksand
This is the Moon that worships the tide 
Here are the waves that run from the shoreline
burying dreams with those who have died.

Here is the mountain and here is the desert
One is too cold and one is too dry
Here is tomorrow and here is today
drops in the river
of time passing by 

Woke up from the flannel of my dreams

and everything was blue

yet the crush of sleep against my skin

had promised something new

the night was swollen, wet with wish

that rained the desert dry

sun loosed my footing from the earth

and turned me to the sky

What beauty born

rooting your days
to the dry
spreading your losses
in loosed winds

ugly 
rivers 
down
in tongues

You arch across the day
from morning to moon
tempting a tremble
tempting a fall


much ado about decay

but what beauty born?

Things

One wounded bird
lost in the sky
sings the song
lullay la by
and echos back
to beating wings
broke beyond
the flying things

One wounded bird
lost in the sky
sings the song
lullay la by
and echos back
to beating wings
broke beyond
the flying things

Sentinel

The Tower

Tear down the alter built with your wishes
let go the slaves who carried your dreams
fold up the day you spread like a blanket
smooth 'cross the morning
and ripped at night's seams
smile at your demons
who stare from the deepness
of still standing water drowning your praise

sever the kite strings
tied to your mourning
swallow the blood
then slide 'cross the blade

What Beauty Born

What beauty born

rooting your days
to the dry
spreading your losses
in loosed winds

ugly rivers down in tongues

You arch across the day
from morning to moon
tempting a tremble
tempting a fall

 much ado about decay

but what beauty born 

Mysterious Ways

She travelled at night
collecting confessions
tossed each regret 
in an apron of sky
shook all the blossoms
from trees not yet blooming
fed them to birds
who could no longer fly
polished the dreams 
she found on the sea shore
offered them back
to an ocean of days
ignited the light
that was caverned in darkness
ended beginnings
in mysterious ways