For yesterday
today
and tomorrow
There is
but only
one word
YES
to
the future
YES
to the past
YES
to the moment
— unheard

(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)

Ten million people
killed by machete
The Congo a hemorrhage
of human despair

Ten million people
whose carcasses rotting
In jungles of torment
— and life’s disrepair

(The New Room: September, 2025)

The rivers of our persuasion
empty
into an ocean of solitude

Leading the swift current
over the rapid shoals
— to greater and greater depths

(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)

There was a time
when my vision was raw
but my words
were riper still

There was a time
before there was pain
with the weather
never chill

There was a time
when the wind called my name
zephyrs
fresh and new

There was a time
with my feelings in song
in love with the moment
— and you

(Perelman Center: September, 2025)

Leavened unleavened
risen and stayed
Lost when recovered
joyful dismay

Intrinsic extrinsic
the whole without parts
Tomorrow this moment
stopping to start

Benign and bedeviled
revealed yet unseen
A valid deception
blessed but obscene

The past and the future
hello and goodbye
Affirming rejection
— all truth to belie

(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)

The raw material
of America
intrinsically ******
Its nature
and character
lost out of hand

Divisive
vindictive
self-interest gone wild
A narcissists
graveyard
— misused to beguile

(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)

Materializing
memory
photos on the wall
Immortalizing
tomorrow
vision to recall
Prescience
in the offing
feelings coming home
Sentience
remaking
— that forever known


(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)