Is there something more
than what you said
or what you gave
something more than
everything that passed between us?

Is there something more
than swift angles of birdsong
at lunchtime fading
or the pillowy music
of too long an autumn?

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Woman
Take me to the springside
Talk to me
Show me how to ride
Your merciless inclines
How to get lost
In your welcoming folds
Woman
Take me to the wellside
Teach me how to lower
The honey-laden dipper
How to hoist & heave
In your name.

you were wisdom
or you were not wisdom
you were restlessness
in the face of winter
you knew emotional devastation
& were proud
to have retained so many
traces of what went before
what suffered in you
what told you how things were
even though they were not

I feel like I’m in free-fall
a regime of tiny plummetings
impossible to overthrow
floors slipped away
or dispersed into a vague oblivion
so many imperceptible plunges
so close together in time
it feels like unrelenting free-fall
irreversible retreat
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Suddenly, she is swept up, taken off, by remorseless shadows. She is taken in by specters, haunts and villains. She is detailed and detained. Enmeshed. Embedded. Dethroned. Defrocked. She is questioned. Why? Why do you exist? And do you believe you exist? And do you believe?

You are the tip of the enemy’s spear. You are poison cloaked in truth. You are the mischief we seek to empty from this world. You are, like any other earthen vessel, breakable, and we intend to break you.

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How shall I fill in the last
Page of this notebook?

A memory carry-on loosely bound
Together by an overstretched

Elastic band; lonely, dog-eared
From coutless days of faithfulnes

Ink-blotted from wet
Smudges on its back

I thought a few lines of reverence
Would do the trick

I thought a cartrigdeful of
Squiggly markings

Would keep it satisfied
For the night

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With a penny drop I remember
With aloofness I seem to remain
The city that stirs below me
The lights of which
Crawl down a lane.

I’ve come to see it all
From a distance
As though my feet had stalled
On the ground of tiered asphalt
Soil of history’s gnaw

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Things are so ancient resembling silence
Universal truth helping the belonging
To be formed into oneness
Corners of all the dimensions come together
To form perfect dimension

Looking through the crystal light
Energies emerge shaping the force
Keeping it all in time
Keeping it all in balance

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Being shaped by my desires no more
Only dreams to guide me
Walking forward in the truth
One Voice and One Vision
Creating the destiny
Forming the desires made for me

Knowledge is replacing folly
Hidden truths no longer in the distance
Aware of all that is needed
Belonging that is not of this world
An embrace that cannot be replaced

Hearing loudly and clearly
Simple and poignant
With acute repetition
Foundations of new layers
Solidified

Climbing the steps of the ladder
Two at a time with
Excitement and joy
The profound becomes normal
On higher ground I cannot be affected

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justice is a caravan
of individuals
their dreams shifting
between confluence & conflict
languages chosen
or accidental
crossing a distance
immeasurable