A morning fog flows
Shy maples begin to blush
the hues of sunsets
Tender fingers lattice straw
Burning husks; ash to heaven
A morning fog flows
Shy maples begin to blush
the hues of sunsets
Tender fingers lattice straw
Burning husks; ash to heaven
How fucking thirsty
Is the tree of liberty?
Quaked cracks web along
Forgotten serpentine roads
Reaching for heaven
Were I to have a respite moment
My soul would sail yonder towards
Those hills as dark as night
The white hills of heaven ?
Don’t think I’ll ever know
Them; just those stoked in fright.
sitting here
working at nothing
it’s so hard to see
What became of the little boy me?
Maybe I’ve seen him reborn
(but) when did he die?
But I’ve seen him reborn
in the pain in my son’s eyes
sitting here
working at nothing
just killing the time
Wondering what’s filling the tears in my eyes
My boat lost its float
upended, capsized
Now in my lungs – I must wrung
life’s blood and demise
sitting here
working at nothing
with fuck all to do
Wondering what little you’ve said that’s been true
Maybe once – upon a line
how did I imbibe?
can’t remember… did I come here?
now I’ve run out of time
Now just left are the good-byes
Now all that’s left…
In the quiet moments – all to myself
Free; no relation to anything
There is a yearning for release
To a tomb of alabaster – fine marble statues
Set aside by some forgotten country-side hill
A monument of once held respect
Loosed and left; no longer loved; abandoned
To time. Then natured
Whose slow reclamation
Consumes all bones
Returned as mulch
That feeds
The souls
Surely
To
come
Boy, sometimes, you know, I just feel like a piece of dirt walkin’
Ain’t no use in being, even less in talkin’
There’s a burden to be, but I can’t feel it for nothin’
I guess it’s just for those busy bees we call sons and daughters
So, as expected, I walk just a little, here to there
Find a little shade ‘neath a bridge or a bench, up on a square
Being a bumble of a bum, tambourined extraordinaire
I sleep on the breeze; stained glassed windows, incensed air
Then as I go, you know, this dirt bakes, it cakes up and up
‘Til it seeps into my knees, creates in me a waddle and cluck
Then there’s that burden in mind; it can’t all be for nought
I guess I’m just for those bumblin’ bees we call daughters and sons
long boards wait in waves
floating on heaving flows
resisting the shore
on a gloomed midday
the highing tide and red sun
lap at oceans edge
from the East a breeze
long born from a mother’s breast
steels a summer son