Brouhaha
Refusing to feel it
Doesn’t make it go away
Maybe we should all
Just go back to landlines
Take a glimpse into
The what could be
Coruscated by the overhead
Light shining down in less draconian
Lifestyles or virtue of temperance
To be a master to the self
Lavender moments of wonder
Missing out to catch up again
Is time running away or
Can we catch it
In the garden
Hanging upside down
From a tree
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Whom have I in heaven but you
And the earth is empty of all
My desires besides you
My flesh craves our bond
My heart will fail
In the strength of my will
If I forget my calling
You are my potion forever
Shared soul house of love
Pure compassion
Only breath
What we were is not what we are
At least not entirely so we transpire
Into what we have occurred
The Gods know the way that I take
Lightening will test me
I arise forth as gold
Also my feet follow closely
In considering steps
A positive path without
Meeting the end of the world
With disdain
Handing it over to the
Greatest gift
Your love
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Factoid of life brings
A dream of clouds and cream
Beings in dance and probable
Light that may or may not
Come to fruition
Three dogs I’ve never met before
Maybe my dogs told them about me
On the other side grieving
What beautiful love to share
Unconditionally
Who is the ghost I met
In the ether last night
Bright eyes and long arms
The fantasy if not knowing
Just a neverland of maybes
Brilliant sky dark stars
Outer space positive
Planetary atmosphere
A backdrop for the unpredictable
Minutes ahead that turn into
Lifetimes and I see myself in
Death and rebirth
But the end is not near
What a rescue
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You have your own life now
No time to hang out on the couch
When you have a cat waiting
For you at home a new life
That needs you
My body needs me to
Show up for it in a way
So I can relate
Like a transformer
Energy jolting through me
My brain is a conduit and
I can cause my pulse to go
Up and down up and down
There is a stretching in between
Giving in and giving up
Pulled apart in new ways
So that I can care not to be controlled
Even if I activate myself
Obsessed with the intensity
Causerie internal blah blah blah
Twilight calms it all
Down down down
If we push ourselves to feel
We can sense the self growing
Like my cat evolving
Is life a drug?
How can it be
Even when we’re sober
What is sober?
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She stood outside and cried
Inexplicably in front of me
It was like she was
Saying goodbye
Without saying a word
Just tears
She came there deliberately
Shadowing the street
Like an intruder that
Needed support
Like a burglar
Up for stealing everything
Including your heart
But what did she mean
To do by coming and never
Returning?
Closed closed closed
I need a friend
Who can anchor my abilities
Encouraging my persistence
Reflect my cosmic powers
Eye contact that says yes
You can! Because I
Still believe that you’re
Incredible
What is this deep sense
Of hurt that requires a
Modern reckoning?
As I hold her
On the sidewalk
And she shakes with
Sobbing sounds
I feel her ache
I draw her pain inward
And yet I never
See her again after that
Isn’t life amazingly
Strange
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Risk taking is also
Lavender dreams of being
Ivory streams of temptation
Pull the car over to say hello
To a random stranger
Doff the expectation
Of folding towels a certain way
Showing up for life everyday
In certain kinds where
Uncertainty belies
Lavender and gold
Love you with action
Like skipping rocks
Banana peels
Hopping one from the other
Tiptoeing around not to
Turn over any stability
Keep it same keep it solid
Remaining sumptuous
How can we breathe?
In out in out in out
Music in my head goes
In out in out in out
I need a water spout
Connected to my house
Which is my body
Like a rubber band that snaps
It is the complex thread of life
I will forgo all assumptions
That to be alive is any wayward
Thing or moment in any language
I am betrothed to that which
Comes in frequencies and feathers
Here the water pools in casual ways
Here the thunder claps on its own
We show up when we fox what we can
If even then we have to certainly
But not with tension in our hearts
Rocks crumbled in our brains
Here we show up as we want to
Everyday as we can
This is life the combat
We must fight not just to survive
But to be alive to play
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He couldn’t get onto the plane
Or into the place he was
Trying to go
Tear down the room
I had his phone number
And his email stored in my phone
I stepped to the counter to
Help him get where he was going
In the end I’m not sure if it
Truly mattered they
Accepted it without
So many details
Strip it down
Shelling it out
Expose the inside
I handed back money
To another couple in line
Two hundred dollars and
A few more bills in change
As a gift to give later
Hold onto
They left me
Is it a jinxing
Hex me with a dirty eye
When I went to find them
In a giant market
To tell them they could keep it
They had already spent it
Like my trust
Intertwined
With no remorse
A disenchantment
Black magic
Is it too much giving
Do we resent receiving
Maybe we’re outjjnxed
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I had to turn the tv on
To get out of my head
The pain of losing you
Won’t let me go
Even though I know
We share space in the ether
Essence of existence in between
I feel your absence everyday
My burning eyes
My burning eyes
Standing in the garden
Without you
Who knew that to
Show you love
Meant also to
Let you go
I will never outgrow you
If I’m getting older
Am I getting stronger?
Relationships come and go
But you are always with me
What I want to get
Out of this is
To be a better man
A better human
Until I see you again
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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
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I can smell you
Even though you’re not here
I can taste the salt
At the edge of your neck
Even though I never have
Watch you grab the back
Of your head your fingers
Deep in your hair
Even this is art
To my eyes
The way you speak
Your ability to ask
For what you want
Like directing traffic
Unapologetically
There is a gap between
What we have and what is
But I can watch you from a
Different place and appreciate
You for all that you are
Whatever we think that is
Range of emotions
Watch the years grow by
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Poétique 