All that energy
Per cell

All that prisoned

Prismed
Energy

Ready from
Each cell
To



BURST!!!

Oh!
the sense of desolation
when the first flower falls

At the molten
Iron core

A fierce furnace
Burns.

What of earth
And body when
Rage and desire
Cool?

Stitching together
disparate words
to bring home
the truth.

Let go
of truth
of words

Disparate
or stitched

And reside
in perfect
freedom

Drink all day

Do not

Be afraid

Of death

1
Drawn into the vortex
Of your life

By a formulaic
'How are you'

Hoarding memories
Like misers
As if identity were
A Thing
A Table, measured
And crafted

2
Or Self-real
When the very
Galaxies with
Dizzying speed

Belie the very
Notion of
Being

Amorphous time
Boxed,
Bagged fog pieced in
Handy seasons

Anniversaries
Of Nothing,
Events
Commemorations,

A drubbing of history
And nullification
Of failure.

3
No lights dim
City life

No Spring
Penetrates the
Screen

Plato sits in his
Cave
Weeping darkly,
Counting
Bodhidharmas
Eyelash
Over and over
Again

Squeezing out words

Paint tube

Picture

Hoping to see

And I saw the

Crack

In the Uni-verse

And I stepped thru

And saw

So sad

Butterfly

So brief

Seabirds shriek
Above the swell

Calmer
Shoals
Bemoan the fate

Of  that fish
The other fish

Not fish eye
In the i of the crowd

Short lease
Body

And done---

Mushroom

Cup rim contains

Flat tea-


Through window pane
Moon shaft

Reflects and

Dapples the ceiling
Matt and flat.


How shimmering light
From afar

Illumines the leaf
Plucked from

Mountain shrub
Far away

To refresh the

Flat wet
Emptiness

Of mind

You know
Your brain
And mine.

No sense
Non sense

You cannot remake a day
Cannot remodel it
In clay

Goodbye
It is gone

Wake up
Still breath
Steams

Today

The only
The best day
Of your life

Slept on Thousand
Year deep moss-

Woke with Spring
In the Steppe

** **! ** **!

Nobody
Fool fool
No

Body

At all at all

All good
All good

Amongst all
Those billions
Of words...

Still knowing

Nothing...

Contemplating moon
On my birthday

1
Full moon
Haloed by cloud

60 years on the planet.

Who am I?

2
Tonight the clouds ride
Behind the moon.

Universe
Inverted.

3
Moonlight is sun
Pouring out,

Dimpled mirror,
Dead to light.

4
A good sleep last night

Dark and dreamless
Dark and dreamless

5
Sun shone
Directly on my face.

Do not be sad,
Moon-

This is
Grace

Sleight scrape
Snail
Over broken glass.

Power of bulb

Spring dropping snow

In the end
Nothing

In the
Mind
-------------------

Before
Beginning
------------------­-

Empty
--------------------

Welcome to
Mike

Strong men
broken backed
driven mad.

Innocent of crime
sent to carnage.

War war and
more war.

Nothing more attractive
than madness war and
destruction.

And all they wanted
was a kiss

Grew too big for home

Out you go

Fly or die

Hototogisu

Recent rain
and the gentle spots
conjoin

(how about us)?

Small dwelling

Flower and ****
Vying for place

Any breath could be
The last-

A sigh of deep
Contentment

I spoke to robin on the tree

He did sing

But not to me

Summit

Guide

Monstrous time
(Daffodil wilts)

Oh slug

I hear that you
Are stupid as

Slime.

Where is the cabbage?

Sun but
Snow?

Ah, cherry blossom

Falling like poppies

I finite space

A scratch of toenail
Startles fever

*****

Goodbye

Base foul mud
Ships struggling by

I hate the music
Of motorbikes.

Longing for the life
Of bacterial
Galaxy  travelling

To ritualise the fog

That in mercy

Lifts

To reveal the lit
Globe burning
Life-

Proof

That mind

Is fog

And flaming hydrogen


And one

Molten iron
Drunk-

Liver made
Of sterner stuff.

Lick earth-
Taster who-
What

You are-

Lick bark-
Grow tree

Love.

Before uni
Multi
Any verse-

Burrowing down
To core

Love

I walk a ladder to heaven

My robe
Many coloured
Falling in shreds
From my shoulders.

Grey beard?
Grey beard?

My wisdom dissolves
In your gaze.

If the dark
Dark night

Of your soul
Soul

  Ends at dawn
Dawn
  Dawn

Rejoice
  Rejoice...

If not

  Not

I hear
Your cries

Mountain water plashing down steeply through and over rocks.

Somersaulting obstacles

Life so easy without resistance

And the cool pool below to venture through,

Sea beckoning a million leagues below.

Restlessness
Rested
And the slow
Fast tumble into dark

Gone away

Mike

Under water-
Poetic straw
Barely breathing-

Our words entangle
Like lovers

But not limbs-

Crystal love
Ice in tumbler,
Libation.

Goddess Poetry-
Anoint her head with oil

Bless our poor efforts with

Eloquence

Weeping

Bank

The apple falls
Through habit but

Who is to say it
Will not fly
Far away and frolic
With Angels
On a cloud somewhere?

Shaken branch,

Squirrel ****

Blossom overthrown

Midwinter lights
***** holes in gloom.

For a moment
Stars unfreeze.

Cataract lifts-

Unveiled-

Limitless possibility
Glints

Not for us the
Neatened rows

Flower and hive.

Between windy seed
And errant sunshine

Unconscious rainfall
And here, there,

Nooked and crannied,
Brave leaves may,

Uncultivated

Emerge

GRAVITY

Trudging uphill-
Scent of wildflower
In rain.

Sniff of Truth-
Gone now.

Red berries
Edible-

Sufficient to life

Why?

One thousand

Words

Haiku

Syllables

Universe

Stubbed toe
Too soft shoe

Final interaction

Body in extremis
Meeting hard-edged world

Anoint this empty head
With oil.

Mount the throne
And

Taking the crown

Love this polished
Pate

Burnished and unencumbered
By apeish hair.

Grass cannot grow on
Such a busy street.

Ghosts, hungry,
Eat my meat,

Guests drink my wine.

All the orgiastic stem
Dispels...

Morning mist,
Dyonisus,
Pan...

And the gods of
Mountain dwellers,

Knowing nothing

And bending in
Peculiar shapes.

This is what we do-

Contort to see



To somehow be seen-

To entwine

To dine

To feed the pretty worms

Where is moon
Is she hiding?

Thought you would
Come to me

But I cannot see you.

Tears furrow
An unwashed face.