Unfinished Lists with Missing Bones

Flag stone
Corner stone
Gem stone
         Inlay-ed and engraved
so finely, you know I've
hardly missed a detail
I want to take it all in
like hanging, dried roses
undead and furled
You know I've: hurled
a few stones,
Broken a few...
some at crooks, some at crones
-Watered Roses
-Watered myself,
-The same for some one else,
-Been watered
You know I've never
drawn water from a stone
but I've drawn a stone
from water, it was
dry as a bone

dead and unfurled





...

I really don't mind, mostly

when time slows to a crawl

I just sprawl

out in a hammock

and carve my nook

by rocking in the breeze, ghostly

hummingbirds might approach me

sounding like growling dogs

I may be a feast for flies

(who are unwise)

but full of laughter for the

occasional, off-kilter croaks of frogs

I try to bend time, here

still swaying to the wind chime I hear

bending for each

four leaf clover I find

making these moments

the longest in my mind

gusts of birds

playful and posing

or just one

landed, spindling

on a dangling branch

stirring me breathless

whether they are caw-ing,

red bellied or red-wing,

flirtatious, indigo

blackbird or crow

Part of the, "Keep" group of works, Untitled.

Keep the kindling
catching carved wood
dried after drenching downpour
Radiance soaked up in
the light of this page as I
seek the lines I missed
Swept up in despair
cast up into the flare
wisps and whispers
that we may dare
dawn upon this combusted night
undreamt of but
impending like
all other days and
stoked by these torrential rains
of foreign proportion
causing a distortion of
the accepted and, consequentially
the unexpected
Cool air breathes our heat, we
have borrowed time
changed in for lost sleep
cant we keep
Peace a while

For the April 6th Full Moon (Part of the "Amidst" group of works)

Emulsion amidst
propulsion

Shifting as I am
sifting patterns

This full moon,
(too soon),
coming at me in waves
paves
rivers in my chest
and I divest
my heartache

Rest

Rest

A bit of fleck, an ashy smudge in your
eye up there
kind of making it runny, blurred
enflamed
pause to rinse it, cooly, openly
apologize for a few things, bury a few things
carry some with you to
the grave
salvage what you can before
it’s too late
relate
real-ly
create something candid and reprimanded or
commended in your own right
if it takes all night, sleep
the next day
after you have set it up right
and shrug the Rest off