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going down the trail

GOING DOWN THE TRAIL©

 

 

 

REMEMBERANCE

 

 

by imperceptible shifts in the solid crust of history

a refined sensibility brings forth dragonflies

harbingers of a gamma burst to undefine everything

and the few words here inscribed will be vaporized

it is so comforting

 

what!  shaw . . .

take that away

comforting?

 

but there is no getting around it

dragonflies are really here

still

and they are so ancient

ancestors of our irrigation canals

pyramids of our rational proof that what is

cannot be what is not

the rays will overwhelm Kepler's Books in Menlo Park

nexus of printability, profitability and humanity

that will overwhelm T-mobile, AT&T, and the presidency

I cheer

 

good greed, green copper oxide, and the armor of industrial captains

transmogrified

transported in rapture to the other side

capitol domes that shine

in Liberty's sky

 

it is near

city subway cell phones will not operate

normal minds bent on an Easter Egg hunt

validated at Seven Eleven

and yet another dollar gambled on salvation

is sucked into the black hole

 

 

 

 

DARK BRILLIANCE

 

here in the cooling embers

even terrorists acknowledge Shiva

destroyer of worlds

 

galaxies, black holes, a universe

of vortex rule

temple spires and sky rise needles

rise in dimness

 

perhaps a smog check will do

a letter of indulgence

though flowers bloom

 

effulgence in a howling of wolves

fugitives from the outer darkness of reasoning

where the crucible is not discerned

 

some with crutches, some with crowns

originally

in bacterial colonies

bank tellers, researchers in Alaska, welfare fathers

who have all paid their dues

plug virtual money into internet slot machines

to calculate possible returns for States lacking taxation

 

it seems dark

here in the brightness of city lights

though toes are unintentional homage

that the night sky few people see

is blinded in night's ending

 

 

 

 

HEARTH:

heaven and earth

 

 

given a pry bar long enough

and a place to stand ___

move the earth

 

bah, humbug!

 

granted definitions, logic is irrefutable

except when navigating reality

requiring

the square root of negative one

kingpin

of the Queen of sciences

allowing for her wily ways

 

instruments of expression

words

conspire to entrap me

"you are defined by your relations with others"

said my boss

trying to corral hippie behavior

 

but I danced away:

what about my undefined self?

 

logic!

 

it's good for stop lights, legal disputes, justifications

sometimes for making bridges and bombs

professors and philosophers pay homage

 

definitions are  sport

in this life I have played

a chess toy, a computer, a flaming debate

 

turning points appear on their own

brooking no argument

offering no explanation

nothing to refute

there is no triumph

but trembling

as when lightning strikes

 

Tabitha purrs and sits on my clipboard

kneads

sort of like a pry bar

doesn't know her claws hurt

 

 

 

 

SERENGETI VEGETABLES

 

 

I awoke to a need for maintenance

specifically, the carrot bridge over the Platt river

 

a note left on the porch of waking life, that place

of work and traffic

of bartering pigs for cell phones

brewing coffee for greetings, foreclosures

 and sewerage treatment plants

 

a small note, like the glance of a passing girl

who knows full well

 

the realm of dreams, warnings, impossible plans

kingdom of unimaginable colors

high definition puzzles

 

swept under the mat upon leaving

our fenceless pasture

where heres and theres are laughable

gargoyles, governments, gardeners

[bleep, bleep, bleep! the author as surprised as any]

and the lady next door

and all

have to walk very carefully

over the carrot bridge

 

 

 

AFTER BURNER

 

 

dharma wheel

watch the embers fly

meteorites

hailstones bouncing

the door bell rings

a free Watch Tower pamphlet

 

Sunday morning shattered

sandal wood burning

fuchsia in bloom

a humming bird

and Rosie barely twitches her tail

 

the great dharma wheel

is unmoved

 

 

 

WINDFALL

 

 

deep currents pass beneath the ocean surface

causing disappearances, migrations, sea walls

currents of thought are submarines

passing right through libraries without a bleep

silent missiles that ignore walls

 

a manta ray snuffles ruins of the Titanic

dodges Atlantis

skirts the Bermuda Triangle

then a rogue wave

 

on a raft with one mast and a tattered flag

NOAH in bright red letters over a scattering of stars

horizons glower

crows gather for a meeting of the clan

 

then suddenly the silence

a great calm over fields and city streets

voices in the wind:

we are one!

 

 

 

 

NO HARBOR

 

 

in the middle of an ocean, how to begin

how to know the end if there is no beginning

foot ball, base ball, eight ball

no matter who wins

the lawns and courtyards of universities

exist beforehand

 

wind in the trees, butterflies

floods, tornadoes, lightning of climate change

all exist and have their stories

on a stage that is disappearing

even the wood chip path at Full Circle Farm

with its magic sometime Shakespearian end

vanishing

Festival flags bravely snapping to an unseasonable wind

 

wheelbarrows of volunteers accompany The Bard

nothing lost, nothing gained

just vacant

all that was still is, see the artichokes

the play goes on

 

bubble gum wrappers in the parking lot

plenipotentiary ambassadors in a battlement of civic disputes

street sweepers

all

in a confidence of place

chew in vain

 

 

 

 

 

NO RECKONING

 

 

in that six inch narrow strip of earth by our porch

a nanotube of boundless plains

something is growing, tendrils and yellow blooms

without permission!

a tenderness of feeling, perhaps trying to be a zucchini

which will reward toleration with a stir fry

 

do zucchinis scream?

do they dream?

does the prospect raise a shudder?

 

quickly quelled

they are meant to serve, without spirit, and be served

for dinner

 

raindrops patter from a humid sky

putting the lie

to a forecast of mostly cloudy

grateful eyes to the new borne air

 

brush your teeth children

your college debt needs a chance to survive

that narrow strip of growing tendrils that creep on solid ground

perhaps hoping for a sprinkler system

 

come rain or come drought

you have been prepared for a day that will not arrive

the cycle has necessary endings, beginnings, repetitions

and warnings from the magnificent ones

that repetition happens

 

a narrow alleyway that leads only to its end

 

 

when without warning a new day begins

consultants, advisors dragging grain sacks and sandbags

say the flood will begin

yes, sometime soon

store water in bottles, a can of beans

move up 2,300 feet or more

but do not trust in us

to save your bacon

so delicious

 

how wonderful it is

tourists in San Francisco at the quake of '06

Chinese immigrants with papers

and paper lanterns

and Tong wars

and stir fry zucchini

smell the sesame oil

 

culinary history is the ticket

the history of lawns is water

and a wavering tendril looking for something

how wonderful it is

zucchini decodes the future

 

so do not ask what you can do

but rather what you are

pepper spray and batons notwithstanding

 

find the day of your understanding

and do not tarry beneath rain dripping eves

fresh air is worth the trip

fresh water priceless

and yes trees

deserve respect

 

brush your teeth

don't expect salvation

which you will find on your own, necessarily

because of who you are

the world is waiting

 



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