On Thursday, April 14, 2022, at 2:22:35 p.m. I created a video for Spring Washam who needed to go to the hospital after she was bitten by a sand flea in Costa Rica. This is the video. I was having a bout of insomnia. Thus, the gravely voice.
Six Lifetimes of Love
I vow to see who you are
completely and without fail
for this life
and five lifetimes after.
If you come back as a spider
and I come back as your mate,
even as I devour you
I will hold my abdomen
with two of my eight legs
and rock back and forth for a while
as I digest you
because I will
miss you already.
I have taken my liberation in bits and pieces
Flight Plan
I have taken my liberation in bits and pieces
I have felt the ancient cage
loosen its hold
around my heart
in small, dry creaks
Ourselves Walking
And there were those of us
who then listened and heard
the savannas of ages
humming their time and time again chant.
That same earth-old chant
that rests in our throats
and sings us
to ever and ever, amen.
I Am The Universe
We Digress
We went
to dinners
with our lovers
and we talked
on our cell phones
to our colleagues
even though
we did not like them
Continue reading “We Digress”
There is a Song Called Winter Into Spring
Sometimes he sits
in his big chair.
Sometimes he imagines
that he is transformed
into a church bell
that is waiting
to be rung.