New Harvest

**written on the eve of Election Night 2008, at the end of Daylight Savings Time** In this – our time our most forward moment we turned back the clock one more hour asleep, one more hour to dream but sixty minutes can’t stop the sun from rising never stopped the crops from ripening never pushed [...]

Definition

Muscle through fat

Felt only when gripped

Or flexed

Faint lines in the flesh

Suggesting definition

This is what it is to be human.

New World

Cold-pressed against the window
As the plane loses speed
Like clinging to a dream
Just before the waking

manifest

the quest begins
with tympani
the sails unfurl
toward destiny

(!)

the heat seems precious
when lifted by music
as i sit in the dimness
and watch you
spin dreams…

Deep Blue

drunk and sad and lonely and i’m spilling over tears and vodka bleed me slowly and i’m heading for cover thoughts of you invade my mind i find i must drown them out from time to time never knew that letting you go meant letting everything go and that in losing you i’d be losing [...]

O Muse!

i want to crawl into your mind lie down in its vast, sprawling fields and watch your daydreams drift by each curve filling my shape and my senses i want to carve my name into the deep bark of your memory and swallow the fruit of its branches tasting each flavor like an old friend [...]