We, lost Africans
left the savanna
to follow the stars
leaving the ground
to stride with arms
down by our sides
to inherit the earth
and dirt of other lands
following the caravan
of sacred elephants
taking off our black
helmets to discover
other atmospheres
learning to breathe
here as well as there
drinking and singing
like blood thirsty
tigers the dangerous
songs of maps drawn
and long forgotten.

possibly too much by myself lately
maybe too long without you
but surely untouched in a way
shaken to my core in dreams

nights barely pass without same
waking dreams wishes horses
thundering past in my head
shaking earth of house inside

where ever this place may be
where ever we still abide together
we stayed here for decades hidden
horses never found us, not here

right now, whatever you are thinking
can be felt inside my bones, here
touch me, feel it, my heart pounds
just as it did before, just as it will

forever

So long, love,
say gnite honey,
I'll go pull a stump,
so here I am, the field
of night all around me,
crazy, sad and lonely,
what love there was,
like a bee on a rose
buried in the year book
of past attics, you never lost
my shadow because I
never had one beside you,
though you did lose a ring
once, or twice,
you were like a woman
holding mirrors
over the spring, there
are screws
in the window sill
never sunken to hold
a pane, you don't listen
for me in the rain
anymore, you lie yourself
back into the one
you think you love, cruelty,
cruelty, cruelty, that's all
you've ever known, my love.