Why do apparitions bring derision? Dividing mind from the flow of flesh moving? Grooving is the grimy, grim and grinning Grinding the groan & hope of home Nowhere to go on the road we venture Are ventured By what we censor, censers Of herbs say the verse breathe the hearse, the worst & surf Of […]
Child of the Kosmos
Spiraling through the breath of life A wave, a leaf, a stone in free fall Finding life in the blue, voices carry Their notes to sit still in ear Hear the sight of hearts humming Dimming vision so to see clearly That s urely we are the realest stories Grown by Vishnu dreaming
African Woman with Jar O/S
She saunters in ellipses around town beneath eves and on streets gliding her dance of jar, frowns Don’t suit her bearing, staring Eyes the blankness of serenity weighted In grace. She -a sea In a current
Query (o/s)
How does one mediate this agony of spirit? This groaning and grinning, this grinding of bone To make stone meal enough for bread May one eat well & hear the bells tell Their toll- a story of notes crowning the nakedness of night
Sidewalk (o/s)
Shining paths Crowns the eyes with blindness, see how the scales have fallen! puddles like galleries of mirrors prostrate themselves on the sidewalk
Lady KĀLĪ -21 God Salute (I/S)
Swaying and slinking, a clink of skulls rises and falls with the riptide of her waist, a groove one drowns to. Her eyes -faraway flames, flickering like collapsed stars Her almost-touch is a rush of penitents to my temples pulsing, drumming Her flow She mocks with blown kisses like poisoned arrows Purring “soon you’ll be […]
Spiderweb (O/S)
Spiderweb- What tendrils of gold played by light!
