Which Is Where We Are Now

  • I’m in a bar. Sublime is singing, belting out songs. He is an Italian opera singer, looks like Inigo Montoya.

    He is dejected. He says he has nothing left.

    “I bet you have something left” I say.

    I walk home, as if walking home after school in the comfort of fall. My therapist is just across the road walking in the same direction. I realize I’m bumping into her because I hung around at the bar and delayed my regular departure time.

    It starts to snow; it’s a happy snow.

    I start to float, laughing.

    I go higher and higher. At first it was a fun thrill of levitation; now, I speed up and move through the air with speed, whisked through the air by unseen angels.

    I land softly on the large branch of a tree and fall onto the street of a quiet suburb.

    I have a iPad like device; I try to run a maps app; the screen flicks, revealing that it’s a Microsoft offering. I see in some vision or video a way to remote into another computer and use maps in a machine within a machine, but my dislike for the original operating system is too great and I throw out my device entirely.

    A little boy across the street says hello.

    Transported

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    22 Jun 2010
  • Into the opening we burst
     onto solar fairy tears
     evaporating over the entire field
    In silence, I gathered
     how innumerable these
     continual launchings
    Still day, yet sunset
     a deer appeared; we chased after it
     Only to return
    The path had provided inklings
     good-omening twinklings
     I hadn’t expected this
    Breathed it in
     Longed for it before I left
     the dogs whimpered, unaware
    I exhaled as they tugged me past
     hoping it fore, knowing it aft
    
    Post-script
    Again amid tears and deer
    I wonder
    dumb-struck
    How easily I might be
    unwitting participant
    in an ever-ascending, light-shedding
    conspiracy

    Struck

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    18 Jun 2010
  • Drowsy in the afternoon
     I daydream of how life began
    Where to begin?
    A fool to set the dial at dawn
     full daylight then
    fifteen minutes beforehand
     affords no preview
    A full hour buys an inkling
     of twilight’s twinkling
     of Daphne’s whispering
      embracing of the embankments
      away from Apollo’s attainment
    Even then,
     I have yet to see when
     day articulates its begin
    
    A solitary cloud on the horizon gleams
     the night is brushed into luxuriance by degrees
     the tension of the starry–eyed watchmen
      and their moonbeams are relieved
    The horizon is wreathed in ambient light
     out of the blue
     the firmament is established
    an ocean of clouds, rose–imbued
     engulf their first little plume
    from the ash of the trees’ leaves
     a remote rebel wind blows
     rekindling an ember which died long ago
    a reversal of fate crackles
     the wood births its master
    Beyond the mists, a beam strikes
    Behold the glob: uncontrolled fire
    My eyes catch her eyelash rays
    heat alights me; I avert my gaze
    knowing dawn
    
    I lumber home to begin my way
     occasionally glaring back
     resenting the triumphant orb’s
     overpowering glory and iridescent morning
    What could I do to compare with the making of the day?
     I just bask in it
    
    All those unanswered sunsets
     each have their sad goodbyes’ bright condolences
    I’ve slumbered in ignorance, abjured the witness of it
    I don’t live here, but somewhere hours hence or thence
     and remain lulling in jet lag, a perpetual guest
    
    Now in my seeking
     I send unsuspecting foxes leaping
    How natural it fits
     the pace of my body and the strengthening of my wits
     with dawn’s rising, when I attend to it
    How ready I am
     at the day’s sad forsaking
     to yield to the dream
     of continual awakening

    Dawn

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    10 Jun 2010
    red with flowers book
  • may man
     not merely
     excel or flounder
     within his constraints
    rather
     slyly aloof remain,
     hark guidance beyond,
     and enjoy his world again

    And Peace Unto Men

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    9 Jun 2010
    orchid book
  • What a strange pole I stand on
     my compass just spins
    Inner fumblings
     keep me dancing on a pin
    Some daft defiance of gravity
     lets me be
    Juxtaposed with the world
     for all to see
    Only let me twirl
               let me be
               let me hum with grace
                     and buzz with glee

    Gyro

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    21 May 2010
    red with flowers book
  • In a train station in France. I’m to accompany two French ladies: a blond and a brunette. We talk in English until I decide to practice my high school French; this goes tolerably well.

    After we buy tickets we stand next to the train-tube awaiting the train. We discuss which city to go to. Without settling upon a destination, we decide to purchase some vittles from the classy delicatessen just to our left in the station.

    The first section, serving meats, served by a male, is strangley cordoned off: the rope holders have been pushed up against the serving glass; I have to step over them to uncomfortably place an order.

    The second section, serving vegetables, served by a brunette, has no such obstacles and is not as crowded. We take our time conferring with one another what to take; the server make suggestions. There a some beautiful fried pepper slices which we take; when the server suggests something else with peppers, I object, because we already have picked some peppers.

    I opt for some baked beans.

    “Oh, no,” cries the server, her personality coming out. She is comparable to Zooey Deschanel with a thinner, less-healthy face.

    “Yes” I insist, jovaly, picking up on the playfulness.

    “You are going to decapitate them,” she says.

    “I think… I think I will eat them all”

    She looks hurt.

    “We are going down to bean town!”

    She pouts, and smiles.

    “I think,” she beams, just realizing this, “I am going to be on the same train as you,” revealing small, unhealthy teeth, which do not take away from her endearing nature.

    Down to Bean Town

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    17 May 2010
  • I spied you as I entered the grocer
     By the time I reached the checkout, I knew
     I had to have you
     Petals vibrant yellow
     Upon inspection revealing
     crimson deep within
     that’s how I knew
     cursing my impetuosity
     why, how need
     why and how 
    
    I brought you home
     not one peep
     not one flower spread
     no color deep
     depressed, languishing
    
    After the dreary days
     Just my luck to bump into wisdom
     that knew your ways
      your needs
     knew you’ve outgrown your pot
    And at the center they knew hibiscuses
     like it comfy and warm
    Every season something new
     just an inch or two
     to continue unfurling roots
    and something to lean on
     when things need straightening
    
    The next day, amid the trees
     I see you sporting that same flower
      the one that brought me to you
    fully extended

    Hibiscus

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    15 May 2010
    red with flowers book
  • Wind gushing through the tall trees at twilight
    The air pats me on the back
      with soft touches of the day’s last heat
    Fading rays of the sun’s reflective goodbye
     stream through, gloomy as moonbeams
    Some glint in the corner of my eye
     a speck of gold, supernatural
                      Firefly
    I spy you hobbling around in preflight
     I delight in your throbbing fob
      as you grow into your wings
                      Firefly
    What a welcome first sighting
    I suppose we must all crawl alone in the dusk
      before we dance in heady teams
    And as I dwaddle home I see
          Firefly, Firefly, Firefly
    out laying a phosphorescent carpet for me

    Firefly Carpet

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    9 May 2010
    red with flowers book
  • O Little one
    flattened by the wheel
     of some innocuous trip
      to work, to school, to the grocers
    You lay accursed in this driveway
     how could your nimble speed
     be overrun by the suburban 5 mph
    As I pick you up I see
     not crimson blood bursting
      from your mouth
     but some bright berry you were
      scurrying away with

    Chipmunk

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    8 May 2010
    red with flowers book
  • I used page through women’s
    clothing magazines for the babes
    Whatever they wore was a teasing distraction
    I thought I knew well Victoria’s Secret
    my uncle joked for me to watch out
    while the poison was already stealing silently
    through my veins
    That such powerful possessors
    would fall prey to obsession with accessories
    laid bare an horrific mystery

    Now that love has departed
    I wonder how much damage was dealt
    by my brutal insistence
    that her beautiful self was all that was wanted
    All that’s left are these seasonal mailings
    Sifting through the pages
    delving back in time
    for something I missed
    Now I look at the artifacts
    am in awe by the inspired, nurturing designs
    Watch beauty echo… echo… echo:
    I am beauty; take care

    Anthropologie

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    2 May 2010
    red with flowers book
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