Blue egg , big blue egg
Someday I'll crack your shell
I'll set a course for the Dream Machine -
to drop a nickel in the Wishing Well
To hopscotch the asteroid belt in the
starry sky ..
To circle Venus where love will never die ..
Back home in the colorful evening
A piece of golden tape to cover a hole --
in the ceiling ...

The Proposal :                                                                ­                          
Make a list to stay relevant or-
make a list for the hell of it
Make a list for the gardener-
Jot a note to invoke ones dharma
Scribble a list for the trip to Florida
Pencil in a note to whitewash your karma
Take a feathered quill & record the days drama ...

A cobra without fangs makes a wonderful pet ,
Traverse the melancholy world in a silver jet
Scoop the hope of the crystal sea in a trawlers net
Whip Beelzebub into an obedient admirer
Order the hardwoods for your funeral pyre ..

Epilogue:
Transit the lay of the wicked world
Explore the thicket deeper as your destiny-
is unfurled ..
Collecting memories in a croaker-sack
The weight of the unforgiving earth on a weakening back ...

So many awed eyes engaged with the stars ,
unaware of the miracles at their feet ...

You made a callous man revisit 70's love songs -
& thumb through books on flowers
I keep a play in my head where we ride off-
as one into the ochre horizon ..
I tender every breeze the gulf may bring
I commit to loving memory each melody the-
gulls will sing ...

When trolling Veteran Lake for answers always-
remember that government catfish feed off the bottom ...

Scramble out of bed
Scrambled thoughts &
scrambled eggs
Coffee fueled with tired legs

Running through appointment logs
Running through the morning news
Running in place
Running for your life in the corporate race

Morning chatter in a rickety bus -
kicking up specks of earthly dust
You're a thirty second note -
in search of a score
A corner office wannabe chained to --                                                  
your chores ...

Whitetails lay tracks on frozen carpets
Chimney smoke lays low across the-
tree dotted , ' picture postcard vista '
My makers blue eyes lay watch o'er -
altruistic leaf-fall , songbirds & Sister dove ..
The crackle of winter fields
Curt , evening , whispering wind revelations ....