Tongues

You cannot stifle a volcano nor prevent it from belching and vomiting magma molten liquid earth you cannot tame the tongue a wildfire spark crawling up flame retardant living-room curtains tongues of a whip the sting of a scorpion blood flows mingling down out of this cave comes celestial hymns and comes the imprecatory invocations… Continue reading Tongues

 Falcon  1/7/2023

Be on the concave  Burrowing deeper within the crust  Driven by discovery   To unearth the inner core with our trowels  In spite of grinding of molars at night  In spite of hip tension     I choose Exodus   Rather than settling  U-turning back to a beginning   I choose to challenge falsities and self-blame    I choose Life  With… Continue reading  Falcon  1/7/2023

Mandala 1/6/2023

Mandala swirls and currents of my life  Rolling Riptide grasping my heel  The Now is the only Age of any practicum    When the tongue is loosened   Desire for freedom from tripping over hurdle predictions   And self-impediments   I behold that which resides within   Swaddling a warm embrace of surrender     and  self-acceptance    I fold and bend according … Continue reading Mandala 1/6/2023

Lynx

A lynx emergesmid morning slumberas the sun pierces throughovercast clouds dissipatingtreading cautiously through winter pathsonly of his own knowingleaves rustlea furtive squirrel mining for nutsthe feral cat yawnsfull body length stretchingWaiting as a watchmanstalking his preyto fatten her winter bellyand for the litter of whiny kittens

Sympathetic

A flight and fury Into the wilderness Interrelated dialog Followed by summarizations And social conditioning Self-criticism An absorption and carrying For subsequent surrendering And borrowing tousled thoughts Increased magnification Followed by macro perspectives Hidden purposes Under obfuscated hunches Sympathetic system, heightened states Parasympathetic For rescinding and rescuing Long winded replies For connection

Steel

The steel cord Evolves With it’s icy vibrations Engirds around our throats Willing to choke the airways The metallic creation of eternal synthetics Vaults us into scientific anomalies Just to fuck around And delay Eventual marches to the grave Experimentation heedless of moral or ethic implications Pursuing disembodied existence Without consorting sages or lady wisdom… Continue reading Steel