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a woman's passion is a fiction of the sun
a radiance that forms and lingers
it's time burning like a rag in a guttering flame
it flickers, it spits a storm, a moment's certainty
a lifetime's doubt
it is the whisper of the wind in barren trees
a crucible for gravity's fervor
a silence dreaming its imploded sounds
Alien invasion,
little blue men falling from the sky.

They're coming for our jobs.I tell you! 
The blue men must die!

Nuke them, trap them,
ship their blue butts back home.

Go invade someone else's galaxy,
leave ours alone.

We're not giving you our women,
our money, or our food.

You're just interstellar criminals,
who can't even speak our language,
that's just rude!

So strap that rocket to your tail,
and go back to where you came.

Earth's borders are closed.
So we can make it great again!
I hope that's not Marvin's
Plutonium 238 Space Modulator I hear
whirring up in the background!

Inspired by the HP Poetry Meeting this evening!
Dawn trembles the glass-
in stillness, a split:
shadow knotted to bone,
light breaks forward.

In my yard a house sparrow-
one wing bent up,
the other folded under-
the body decides.

Ordinary in death:
storm, wire, hunger.
No trumpets, no song-
just the drone of flies.

I reach for the light,
palm raised;
my shadow carries the bird.

I apologize for a world
that could not keep you.

I apologize for the rapture of ego
that left you.

If we must speak of deliverance,
I want a god with no promises,
no threats, only this:

a shovel,
a tree,
and someone
to do the digging.
The river runs under a stone bridge
down where no one ever goes
a place for old men where the trees bend
and ask, "Pourquoi chercher autre chose?"

Its source is hidden as is its end
this river that barely flows
where the trees bend, a place for old men
who ask, "Pourquoi chercher autre chose?"

Where the stone bridge breaks, it cannot mend
what deep January froze
a place for old men where the trees bend
and ask, "Pourquoi chercher autre chose?"
2025

this is a ZaniLa rhyme

the French line says, "Why look for anything else?"
God has looked into my heart,
Not at it, but into my heart —
Introspectively,
Microscopically,
Spirtual-scopically...

That lumpy piece of flesh,
holding all my fears, snears, cheers, and revears:

The terror of that lone gunman lurking nearby, forcing a town and the State to ransom for a “new world order.”

The criticisms of others...

Accomplishments in life you held as a goal, not sure if you’d ever bring into the fol’.

And my eternal hope, alarming me when I feel I can’t cope...
Essential to keep me alive,
Essential for me to thrive,
And arrive into my ‘be-ing’.

But it is a bumpy piece of flesh,
Scared with wounds,
Pushed and prodded,
Pumped and plodded
in life, with life
And through life...


“Oh, my heart...”
We cradle the precious things

and place them carefully upon our lap

the miracle of newness is like a sacred prayer

it is hands raised high and heads bowed low

yet always in that moment eyes opened wider

we marvel and bask in the wonder of it all

it is a full moon in a hungry sky

hope’s whisper of a million questions

before the answers will ever reach our lips

a blooming garden at our feet

a child’s hand clutching ours

yet still we walk too fast

as time brushes by.
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see,
except standing there leaning on the balcony rail,
holding the universe together."
  ~ J. D. Saliner
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