water boatmen
skim bright coloured reflections
as the sun sinks

a gun to my head
a chess game lost, sore loser
i smiled and engaged

murmurs, soft kisses
sated in each others arms
do you remember

opulence and taste
in layers of mud and clay
broken porcelain

train rails and switches
chairman Mao in effigy
executed, hanged
all white and pierced through by knives
cold crow calls threading the wind
cup cake clouds float past in rows
dry board walls and puttied glass
tagged and tagged again

let love rule your life
and peace fill your heart and mind
reject fear and hate
and you will be wealthier
than you will ever need be
and you will be happier
than your wildest dreams

looking in your eyes
i can see the beginning
of that laughing smile
and familiar sparkle
a decision caught in flight

Beginnings and ends
Some overlapped, some butting
Others just dangling

will i overdose
i make a fist and try
a hit of pure love

With a harp it strides
Plucking notes like hammer blows
In an endless dirge

"death is beyond life!"
crowed the frail, scowling ancient
"left and two flights down!"

her landscapes' smooth curves
and stunning topography
were never at odds

"why is that door closed?"
"because the room is a mess."
you opened the door
and skipped across the floor
and bounced onto my bed
"You have a comfy bed!"
and so it began

on the cross town bus
met a holy man laughing
singularities

puff and puff again
your breath a prevailing wind
i sail this ocean
deep inside of want to be
deep inside of you me you

an ice cold raw day
crystal clear and starkly lit
and i had to be

i am just a fool
guilty of loving blindly
with all of my heart

beautiful child
i gift you this world
sadly broken

your God is not great
in truth he does not exist
just liars and fools

**** in a bathtub
corpuscular colours flow
alive through Bonnard

do not judge harshly
life thrives in controversy
and differing views
but seek the truth of it
and understand what that means
always be compassionate
serve up truth tempered by love
and kindness to your fellows
free of  any prejudices
that is when and only then
may you pass judgement

where are you my love
so longed for and so welcome
where are you my joy
my consort and my lover
where are you my closest friend
my intimate confessor
and sweet keeper of my heart
where are you hiding

within and among
the dark deep velvet heavens
in dream and without
floating drifting through the vast
all sewn with stars like raisins
part cloak and part crown of thorns
i spin there quite untethered
wending the giant smallness
of my bare humanity
a partial somnambulist
peering from one squinting eye
at realities cold light
afraid of mortal blindness
and trying to dream

sparrow in the hedge
upside down watching tables
crumbs are falling up

life's confetti
sparkling colours, floating in
time's dark endless depths

each of us clamber
through the stages of our lives
scaling monoliths

i plan to invade you
marching to your very heart
then surrendering

my heart behind bars
solitary confinement
for caring too much

winter thaw
sunny and warm
unmade bed

Little thoughts and dreams
tickling, trickling from the void
wellsprings of our minds

things change gradually
and you adapt to them
when things change quickly
you struggle to adapt
in this protean life
that breeds such brilliance
and threatens existence
the furnace of greatness
and the angel of death
don't you think that you should
have some compassion

wearing my armor
silver paint on cardboard
x over my heart