Enflammé

Put a dint in it
Arranged abcedarianly
Turn up the cynosure
Count the bees
One by one
A flame can burn
Even on rose carpet
My emotions are
More effusive than the
Color of the background
Is it sexual or passionate
Or both by default
Misunderstood on both sides
Turn over rocking from
Corner to corner and
Light is painting shadows
Into the room with
What is left
I have more than enough
Somehow now the
Thought is having
Just enough to ensure
We are covered completely
For what comes not
Just the edge of the
Blanket but the
Entire comforter
Resplendissant

© GÄ

Oiseaux

Multifariously desisting
Licking his wounds he
Rips the facade out of his eyes
Dances on the table
Stumbling off into the
Unexpected arms of
A welcoming and loving
Ground that only wants
To be a cold comfort
Rather not scream
Out loud getting
Ourselves into more
Trouble but wouldn’t
It be satisfactory to
Hear some delicious
Calls from the wild
Beckoning out of the dark
Hollow to love us
Without haunting us
In such a way that
A payback has yet to
Return knocking at the
Soles of our bones
Rattling the towers
Where all the bells hung
He tucked himself
Low enough to holler out
Unnoticed but sang
Instead to the pigeons
Ah to be wanted
By something
Even if it were
Only birds

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Reserved

When life is askew
It’s impossible to back down
Tripped up by all the actions
I could have done better
Differently holding on
Too tightly for what is
More memorably correct
Wrapped up in the
Stranger unknowns
Feet stuck to the ground
Brain says move
Go go go
Follow the thought
Stranger still time spent
Left undone on the
Porches of people that
No longer call us
But think about us
Sitting on their couches
You can feel it even
Miles away

© GÄ

Particle

At one point you
Wanted to do this for me
And now that we’re together
Forever you don’t care?

Where is the personal heroism
Trees stand tall for so long
Unbreakable song in the sky
How much practice will there be
One hundred years it seems
Or more in the afterlife

Write the language of plants
Find the grace to be
Existing harmonically
Ground absorbed beneath us
Light step forward
Dark retreat

Maybe we don’t feel amazing
To ourselves because we are

Once we find out
What’s hiding inside the box
Before you throw it away
Search underneath
In the inner pocket
A gift

We revel in what
Was almost lost

Look deeper before
You toss it into the emptiness

© GÄ

Eclipse

As the dark became darker
The light became brighter

He will be bound to die griping
If he doesn’t check himself
Or maybe he wants that

I’m reminded of everything I have
Everything I don’t need
The story of an apple and a snake
Who takes the bait
Who’s left to blame

Or maybe everyone is pointing fingers

Stuck in a rut or ready to go
Just be nice, just be nice
It’s kind of endless
Where things can end up
Gravity is funny that way

I’ve got maybe another five decades
To get it right and seven if I’m lucky
It feels good to look forward to something
And solid to project so far away

I don’t mean to sound like a gink
But maybe all that time I wished
To spend with her wasn’t as
Important as I made it out to be
Orchestra of fantasies in my head

I thought I wanted to share it with
Someone anyway
Somewhere anyway

It wasn’t what I thought
A puzzled picture

Fragmented light

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Bow

Affording the luxury of our feelings
Putting things in a storage unit

Forgetting time and moving
In out in out up down
I don’t call her
Because she’s too dark

It’s not a strength of personality clash
It’s the light that I’m seeking
Bright at the top of the hill
I can see it in the distance
Coming toward me
But away from you

I have a better chance
At witnessing the second coming

Now marks the time definitively
Without your sound
And the evidence of you
Is all around

Why does it have to be over?
It’s so final

My sad face
Looking a people in cars
Makes you wonder if they know

My body is getting quieter
This marks the beginning of a new era

And although I’ve cleaned up shop
Picked up the pieces
Collected my feathers

It still feels like
The top’s been ripped off

Me attempting to tie
A pretty bow on everything
Even darkness

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Miracles

Can you reassure my mind
That it didn’t mean broken pieces
Of flint and petals in the wind

Miracles sing:
A window opened up
The breath of life cries
Over a hill to travel;
in a moment that will
Quickly be forgotten
Living with him, dying inside

A flute sings up
From downstairs travels
Into his ears and turns
Downward the heads of
Tiny blue flowers in the
Harmless garden
with jumping conclusions

Miracles song:
Many footsteps I have walked
Sun flares danced to
Flicker close to my fingers
Each digit
Hungry to feel powerful
But the energy is drained
Green eyes filled with tears

Chilling echoes
Everywhere reverberating,
Is there a prayer that could
Safely encircle us in protection?
His intelligence was flying away,
Pigeons were scattering
Screaming out loud
More than one day of peace

Then on his knees
Please he pleads
Must I lay prey to
Imprudent circumspection
No father to call to be had
No mother to pet his head

A miracle song
Is hiding under a blanket
Somewhere in the back room
Passing by the mirror in the
Vestibule to look one last time
He writes a fast note
On a piece of yellow paper
“Osmosis is my safety net.”

Diffusing carbon skin
What question could be asked?
All the walls were rattling
Inside crawling with spiders
Words on their backs,
It’s not your fault
You didn’t design life
While creating yours
Connect it to ours…

Meaningful to meaningless
Hand in hand
Instead of the same kind
Two fish swim away
I plant a heart on a rock
No more solving mysteries
Broken candles
Lights no one’s pathway

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Inside

Separate heart from head
As long as you have to
When you carry a weapon
You’re not being a happy person
You’re looking to protect yourself
Or get into something
For my own sanity
I step back into the light
Take back broken pieces
Of my soul welding them fast
Burning them bright
Is it ridiculous to think that
We could find peace
Anywhere else than
Standing at the edge of a wishing well?
The story that I write
The history that I live to tell
Says farewell to the backside
Of impoverished heartbeats
As the leaves are turning
So is my body and the
Welfare of my nature
Internal song is a personal lyric

© GÄ

Line by Line

Is it impatience that’s the culprit
What should get us into trouble
Or people who do not follow through
To help as they desired to would?

Could we not wait a moment longer
If we have prolonged this entire time?

Watch my heartbeat race and
My pulse go up when I see her name
The trauma is real reaction deliberate
This cannot be faked well knowing
I am a sensitive but bad at closing
The gate because people pleasing
Is ingrained in my nature

Relier les points un par un
Dig into the meaning and
Get the job done!

I love the way the sun falls down here
Lizards and birds are almost friendly
Even the tiniest mourning dove
Seems differently sweet and I
Crave nothing more than to rescue
The rocks that are mortared here
Each piece put in place
Is more outstanding than
Anything I’ve ever aligned
It all portends well to become
A stronger skeleton when roasting
The oven is hot and the food
Is nourishing even the dragonflies
Are delighted in knowing that life is not
Broken like love, it can exist anywhere
On the planet if it’s wanted

© GÄ

Plume

Eating me up inside
Devouring me whole
Not a single crumb
Is left over for the crows
Strap me cross the butcher block
What’s next? Tequila
Turning heads of the pained ones
Call out to the tamed ones
Since the wild have already come
Beats in the back of my head
Drums that could wake the dead
A feast for famished babes
A trough for thirsty souls enslaved
By our own desires
Do the math ring the alarms
What’s the total number to disarm
Sugar sweating from your lips
My forehead on the ground
Hips up in the air
Slight breeze running down my back
Feels good not to care
Light as a feather

© GÄ