Intimate in sleep
elicits sweet response
from that birthright place
of undefended Here I Am !
No need of  armor shell
that's worn by serious day
pretending to disdain
your softness...
  proof of worthy man

You are
evolving mystery
exquisite vexing partner
exponential...
all potential
streams through you
and back through you returns

No matter the illusion
we dance with you

I heard it from reliable source
we have it upside down
that Soul is mired just like us
in denials' deadly drown.
We are the ones on point of power
though muck is what we see.
We answer evolution's dream
and change reality.

She's been leaving for months
sitting still long time gazing ahead
between woodland graves of companions
one whose habits came hers when she died
( we saw the transmission take place
when nestled together one night )
greeting each visitor in the driveway
and hunting
my garden cat
Lately all night under stars or clouds
no coming in for man lap naps
exploring high places indoors for daysleep
then cuddling in small low cocoons
Our connection deep by departure
assured her long job was complete

how*  
    why
  when   ?

ignore answers

open   *enter   be  
build      desire     heat
spark          risk         excite
*choose               vision    ­           follow

Vacation was a workshop
in life supporting heat
in sweet relief and yeasted space
the flat raw dough did rise and bloom
no longer hidden heavy weight
Express and knead it now !
Unconscious is thus manifest
until it's worked there is no rest
Inconvenient ? That's too bad.
Life's what we have
not what we had.

Miracle of this morning:
Sun commingling with green !
I see.

What I miss
waiting for grace from without :
Gaze of my lover
present before my eyes now.

wake me in time to look in your eyes
before we trapeze through our day
to savor the breath of connection
to merge into our reflection
to know who it is that we are in this moment
before we meet again changed

My children being bombed
brothers  sisters too
mothers wail from graves
to wake us from our death*

I grasp at sunset  reach for the moon
where is comfort from this doom ?

I pray and promise, make a deal
to end insanity's appeal

Do we need this to learn compassion ?
And what of evolution's action?

walking in mud
     Earth receives me
    deep I sink
   feel as one
  cling to her
  new life arising
brave shoots ******
      with force of Spring

Feel it now and know
Who is not the point, or why
War is now come home

dreaming with expansion
breathing silence we emerge
for our party we are hiding
resistant to defining
let alone deciding
who we are

breathe our rolling dance*
absorb with every meet of flesh
all molecules in matrix flow
merge spaces in between
*we are become

leapt out of bed again
life just too exciting
to let me lie in sleep
and yes the worry
of the day within the night
so many wiles unsatisfied
the counted tasks undone
and I am lonely while you sleep
so write the lines or draw the dream
while darkness covers me and you
and wait for clouds to blow across the moon

awake

the realm of sleep
disturbing

try this or that

but only honest courage

whispers why

Light and shadow dance
Blind intention pas de deux
Fifteen years, who knew ?

who is it now who loves me
who changes tune for every feast
of every new curve learned
who echoes deeply as I howl
responds to shimmies and the luster
sliding all along the rim
I like to think it's all of from him
but peering over edges I can see
who shines a light in darkness
It Is Me

Sever useless ties that bind
All created in the mind
Honor only loving choice
Speak with strong authentic voice
Sing no dirge of yesterday
Find myself in timeless play
**Respond as if I know me not
for I'm not who where when I thought

I planted today
in tune with moon and rainfall.
Why seek discontent ?

The mind is weak but the flesh is still willing !

abandon me slowly
go to the place where you are holy
within the realm you call your own

abandon me swiftly
that I may fall
firm in my place
where I shall find me

abandon me
to the path of myself
where I shall dance
my way*
*with abandon

I drink wine
til I stumble
eat chocolate til I'm full
of anything but you

Never am I singular
always a chorus within
Now bolder than ever
my voices are heard
I speak and I listen
and so am sustained
Lonely not ever
in consort with me
fine consult at ready
in my world of we.

you better be in the woods
with no phone
you better be doin okay
in your space
you better be livin your life
without me
I don't have to know
you don't have to tell
though I'd gladly be sharing
your heaven and hell

you would write me a love poem
erase depressive doubt
declare essential worth

sublime is your intention
earnest hopeful knight
yet only I can bring my poem to life