It’s all I can do
trying to stay in your view
losing ground to you

Young hunger yearning
New growth burns it's winter suit
With a bang, I awake

Flat top mountain hike
High above blue sky slowly rolls by
Beauty splayed before my eyes

yikes venezuela
double yikes for red china
lost their human's rights

corrupt governments
pillaging their own people
with just signs to fight

they let it happen
trusting in greedy humans
no one else to blame

lessons never learned
our founding fathers teachings
history repeats

I am man
in all my disfigured beauty
the good, the bad, the ugly, for all laid bare

high voltage tempest
below, they buzz, bracing, tense, alive
the current pulses thru

My muse has learned to change her frights
not in a material shift
                  but in her dreams
inside
I think it amazing
                                she shrugs it off
no big deal


but if she can change a dream?



                                                   could she change her mind?

raging whiteout winds
chaotic drapes blinding, viewing
mother Denali's
sharpened crystalline edges
framed by sprawling blue heavens

Hasn't worn them in years
Since she lived here, my all star
Her low cut Chuck Taylors

wild hearted summer
sun, blazing down, waving heat
skinny dipping time

taking shortcuts home
forgetting long day troubles
your smile driving hard
mindless ideas of me, you
letting your hair down tonight

Going further now
Snow thawed, moose bones, not white, raw
Fresh feasting for some

Another old night
blood red, chasing arrows in
reflections, wasting
away in Peruvian
dreams of when the night was young

flat bottom cotton
floating above, motionless
picnic in the park

At the heart of coal's soul
lay the diamonds colored rainbow
arching to fill other's empty hole.

frigid mountain stream
sparkling conversation
pool cooled PBRs

time stopped
memory frozen
reflection

my little sweet child
when did that monster steal your smile
I was too dumb to really even notice
But today, I thought I saw a glimpse
creep back across your beautiful face

Wondering if they are the same
The feelings, long felt, long overdue
Waiting at the terminal for you

hurtin' for certain
sweating out lasts nights mezcal
mexicali blues

What could they be thinking
swimming loving rotting sinking
Watching fish doing a mindless thing
Wasting struggling dying for nothing
but alas, that bright silver young-ling
so alarming to see mindful fish doing
a simple mindful thing

Listening for night
Feeling for light, the dawn sun
Seems so far away
From this cold and lonely place
My deaf, blind heart led me to

dens of jungled minds
vipers and constrictors thrive
charmed again by snakes

You ever heard, dark to light or
I was blind and now I see

It used to perplex me and to
wonder what could this mean

Did it mean like the rising sun
hitting places it had not before been

Was it a surgery or some godly miracle
that made the blind man preen

Or was it something deeper
something felt but something unseen

I think I see the meaning now
I had to write it down and then read

still water pools
abandoned by fleeing tides
patiently wait

waking at night
only my dreams wander
how cold it is!

Before the leaves come
Winds chime on hollow dead limbs
winter leaves as summer yawns

Blue sky sun reflected
melting a mountain lake to
Raspberry blue slushee

rushing to compete
races only rats finish
living in contests

winter melt
meanders along
swelling spring

Glacier melt to waterfall
Frozen hearts thaw with light
solid gold veins, coursing, remain

The waterbugs glide
Like her sky dive dreams
My middle bug flows with life

so much fun
frying bacon naked
pop then hop

belugas stopped by
bobbing down Turnagain Arm
marsh mellows swimming

We went past sunset
Headlong into the darkness
Straight to the sunrise