I don't need to dream
of emperors and dragons
I'm like them myself
a focal point

of energy
finding free ways where
it desires to flow to
or away from

I dream of
renewing
what is stuck
or run off track

passing on order
to the fire
water, earth
and air of life

The professor's book

is discounted, outdated --


at his retirement.

I see the late and the early
people in lighted rooms
where the curtains are not closed

I see men in the twilight
penumbra of the morning
talking on the benches

in the circle of the square
that then starts singing
in the trees that live there

Everything keeps going on
from yesterday to tomorrow
without beginning and end

There is no direction
everything's going by itself
its divine way

Not the way it is,

only the way it happens –


my life is okay.

Wild waves, the shore comes

close, it narrows more and more --


Then, calm, the strait.

My tears cannot wash

away what has happened, and --


everything goes on.

There is evidence

of what I had and did: signs --


of my existence.

Everyone sits still,

yet there are shadows walking --


around on the walls.

Stories that end well...

well, there really aren't any --


There are no endings.

Dozing, I vibrate

along with the world outside --


A leaf in the wind.