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 a day away.
And this day –
oh!
this day
has been pushing for a long time
like [...]

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 me, too
drink myself into a puddle
with my fellows here
we are like [...]

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
i want to weave your hidden desires
through my hair
and let [...]