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RW Khalid Curley Jan 2015
Bush Ranger, Bush Ranger, what ridge do you roam?

Law dogs come a call’in and you ain’t at home.

Hear the hounds bay’in, ******* your trail.

They’ll slather and snap til you flee Caesar’s pale.


From mountains to prairies to islands in seas

Break ground with a pick, lay line on your knees.

Bring the sweet water from bubbling springs

to bathe green babies and see sprouting wings.


Flowers appear in the late summer sun,

auguring rewards in days almost come.

Layering blossoms build the great buds,

sticky and fragrant with crystals of love.


Late in the evening on a new moon’s fall night,

feet pad through shadows pierced by flashlights.

Not a word is spoken as the plants are shorn,

lightened of the harvest for which they were born


Bush Ranger, Bush Ranger, what ridge do you roam?

Law dogs come a call’in and you ain’t at home.

With shovels and buckets and pockets of seeds

you’re a sowing the wide world with Solomon’s ****.
RW Khalid Curley Jan 2015
how does gold get into a fish’s eye?




                                                        ­                           eye
                                  ­                                                   open
         ­                                                                 ­             eye
                                                ­                                         staring
                                                         ­                                 never
                          ­                                                                 ­  chances
                                                       ­                                         missed
                 ­                                                                 ­                gold
                                            ­                                                       fish eyes’
                                                           ­                                         cupid
                  ­                                                                 ­                  loves  
                                       ­                                                              gli­tter
                                                            ­          attraction’s                                           ­                                                                 ­        
                                                        ­                         O  flash
                                                        ­                      finis                                   shadeless
                                                       ­                     nothing                                windo­ws
                                                              ­            shutter                                  reflection
 ­                                                                 ­       aperture                               unblinking
                                                      ­                    lidless                               eye
                                                             ­               creature’s                      grasping
         ­                                                                 ­      contorted         gasping
                                                         ­                             portal    gaping
                   ­                                                                 ­         self’s
RW Khalid Curley Jan 2015
His tired jump boots filled up with pebbly sand.
                               Foot followed foot at a weary leaden pace
                               as he trudged on the sunset wind swept strand.  
                               Fatigue drew lines upon his sunburned face.

                              A sad girl sat twirling a blazing brand.
                              She dreamed the furthest birth of nascent stars.
                              Heavy wood crutches rested at her side.
                              Her withered white legs were trapped by steel bars
                               He silently approached her as she softly cried.
                              Pain was offered for pain as lonely eye caught eye.
                           He wept mute as she sat mourning in a grief unspoiled.
                    Their tender psychic boundaries touched and then recoiled.

                              A wave washed gently over his broken tongues
                              as a hungry purple sea consumed the sun.
RW Khalid Curley Jan 2015
Passage


The bones of our friendship accuse me,
brittle; not gleaming, dull and dry, resonant of forgetfulness
their facticity desiccating, chipping, drifting
into obscure cracks in the ossuary of recollection.
Each mute bone is a stick upon taught silence
rat-tat-tatting a twisting wheezing death roll
bones drumming for an audience of none,
echoing through the past,
oblivious to the cadence of the living.

There is no salvation from the wheel.
You turn and spin,
a constellation in my memories.
Rat-tat-tat
Amogasidi!
Do not be deterred.
Align the maze.
Open the door from Samsara!

Rat-tat-tat.
RW Khalid Curley Jan 2015
The bones of our friendship accuse me,
brittle; not gleaming, dull and dry, resonant of forgetfulness
their facticity desiccating, chipping, drifting
into obscure cracks in the ossuary of recollection.
Each mute bone is a stick upon taught silence
rat-tat-tatting a twisting wheezing death roll
bones drumming for an audience of none,
echoing through the past,
oblivious to the cadence of the living.

There is no salvation from the wheel.
You turn and spin,
a constellation in my memories.
Rat-tat-tat
Amogasidi!
Do not be deterred.
Align the maze.
Open the door from Samsara!

Rat-tat-tat.
RW Khalid Curley Jan 2015
Moonlit concrete canyons echo with howls.
                   Signal midnight terror!  Packs are on the prowl!
                                                      
                     Demonic toothy grins with lunar glow aglint
                    suggest savage passions with more than a hint.
                           Cowering sheep paralyzed with fright
                 look to wary shepherds on guard through the night.
                             Ravenous rovers mate fang to fleece,
                        predatory prowlers drawn by plaintive bleats.
              Lobos fear no shepherds’ dogs nor bullets from their guns,
                      they only fear the cage, wolves were born to run.
                                                    
                     Death may be their destiny but living is the chase.
             They’ll run the neon jungle ‘til they’re killed or catch a case.
RW Khalid Curley Jan 2015
Strap him to a gurney.
    Put a needle in his arm.
    Time has grown short.

       A clock ticks away
            final moments.
Cold figures stand the watch;
 no compassion, empty souls.
     Aztec priests, gift givers,
       administer vengeance
                                                       ­   
       Fly on burdened spirit.
            Sleep dog, sleep.
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