Isolation

01

Running

I jumped through rocks

I ran through sea

and all for you

to marry me

Fate

02

Check

Sicilian Scotch to Budapest
Pawns retreat, Vienna Attacks

Drowning Bishop to Petrov’s Defense

Mating Castles the Italian piano
Knight rides to a Birds Opening
Notating Queens skate by figures

Flaccid Kings spoon the Royal Fork
Infant Pawns promoted to Queen

A Dutch Exchange

Mate

03

Changing

Walking through painted wax
Turpentine fields

breaking musk

Waves pattern filling walls painted black
Blue pearls
line of thought
hidden jacks

Falling dreams

perfect palette

Sewn Earths

melting dews

Shadowlands catching breath

Arithmetic

04

Black

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of
rye

Introduced species to kill
Research and development
Management and control
Biological priority
Hunt the fox with poison
rabbits to kill and eat
Cane toads to pop
wild dogs to domesticate
Four and Twenty Blackbirds baked in a pie

Viral organisms Lantana sun
fungi pray on natives.
A crazy yellow ant set on fire
Feral bees and weeds compete.

Fence; trap; poison and electrocute conservations shoot

When the pie was open the birds began to sing

Steel jawed traps overhead snipers bullets fired It’s an ambush run and hide!

Myxomatosis chlamydia: wild cats and koalas
Registered toxins veterinary approved: Be sure they are lethally disposed
Parasites vector extinction; Instrumental for stronger adaptation.
Widespread eradication coordinating populations
Soil erosion caused by farming bio divergent legislation

King

05

Sapient

Habitat

climate

alien sands

Biotype corridors set up by man

In space I will always be

the clay you shape

the land you see.

Geology

06

The Cats

She adores his soft fur he worships her skin

White paws gently rest on her outstretched limb

The two become one

his head soft on her belly

Transformed

though ritualistic energy

Tail

07

Planetary

Integrations mistake
Aesthetic beauty visionary space
Moving through rivers lost in a Lake
Pushing boundaries searching for place

Indigenous memories a color of words
Stories lessons mythological prose

The challenging mind exploring states
Concepts abound new ways to think

Footnotes and pseudonyms contemplating minds
Challenging conversations

songs

Visionary hearts curated masterpiece
A Red Dragon to quote peace
Cultivating passions

abstaining peace

A spear tainted with holy blood
Raise the cup to drink

Alone in my bed while looking up to the sky

Night

08

Hearts

The clocks ticking
the fires licking
The surfs beating
a tinkering chime

The other listens
the surf sings
A lonely car passes
the surf beats

A tinkering melody clock’s over

the ticking clock keeps on clicking
The melody slows
the clock keeps on singing
A flame flickers to an ember

though the clock keeps ticking

A cat meows and the fire keeps flickering
the music stops a silent time

The waves are beating though my heart is still ticking
the music stops but my heart keeps ticking

The music stops the clocks are quiet the surf is still

but my heat is still

beating

Verse

09

Hidden

The maiden watches from across the lake

Departing lines pass

The mother bends to her coming crone.

18 years and nine months

her child now a woman

Myth

10

Before

Slipping heat

warming sky

Burning steel

empty fire

Suns light

beating low

Fading

it’s time to go

Sleep

11

The hypnotic

Transparent night
Casuarina Tree
Summer rain

Memory

Palettes on a coffee break

Trauma

Oil and watercolor
mate

Offspring’s deliberate
The next sequence elaborates
Entwined portraits

lost Renaissance

Cross

12

The Seventh God

Polymorphic leaves bow to the wind in sad pleasure

Pink smoke fills black lungs

predisposed

Lost minds seek answers

in a question.

Blind sheep plead in quiet desire

Is this self-imposed insecurity natures presidential speech

Looking down to the quietness of kind, homo sapient minds follow blind

Hiding in silence, Quantum diets challenge a parallel dream.

In blind unity precedence of power manipulates.

Who will stand by the courage of a fool’s nest?

Who will stand under the sun watching as the sky falls?

Who will challenge the challenger’s breath?

Who will wear the fools crown?

Space

13

Pride

There are seven colors in the rainbow

There are six colors of skin

Genetics dictate pigmentations divide

If I eat too much carrot my skin changes color

does this mean I am any different as a human being?

When I was 10 my best friends were black.

When I was 10 we all played together.
Without question we loved the same we feared the same we grew the same.

The only difference was our color

It is not the shade of a child’s skin; it is the fear a child learns that their adults bring in.
Human kindness comes from within not from the differing colors of skin.

Do you really think it is as simple as the color?

Does it alleviate your guilt?

Does it help you feel you fit in?
Does protesting alleviate your Sins?

Do you have close friends of a different color?

Do you know what it’s like to live life with another skin?

We all began life with dark skin. Out of Africa through divergence and genetic mutations.

Humankind was introduced to a lighter skin.

Blame the Sun not the color of a persons’ melanin.

which church do you believe in

?

14

The Bride

In the Song of Solomon, I am black but comely

O Ye daughters of Jerusalem

Pride

Just like religion we are divided by color

Though in the beginning

we were all the same

Mother of Skin

15

Dreaming

I stopped the clock at 12:36

63 sheep caught counting, before a broken fence

A spider shivers
12 caterpillars’ silk
cranial nerves wallflower
Synthetic patterns
Broken line

21 butterflies dance through my head

The clock stops

at twelve thirty-six
21 butterflies danced
through my head

Memories that look like a foxtrot

Thread Interrupted

16

In-between

a farmer bends night to sew

The guiding star has turned into a black hole

Where the only friend you knew has passed away

into the unknown

towards another day

Harvest

17

Earthen

A final act follows

dramatic pause

encore

Before a quiet audience

pray for silence

Cornucopias filled with whipped cream

Seal each clap with untouched white skin.

Clay

18

Rent

Shoot me down with balls of lead
Shoot an apple off my head

Do you go to sleep at night to dream of monkeys roving blind?

Shoot me down with eyes of red
Ruby glasses in opalescent pink

Careful how you turn the page
Gold leaves burn when put to heat
Simmer until ready then return to boil
Don’t forget to check the stove

Last night the firemen left me a note
before you lay down all alone,
count your sheep, turn off your phone

But first make sure

you have turned off the stove!

Crime

19

Press

Painting in a church by the sea

Sweet coffee a rose killed for spilt tea

It only works if you close your mind

Tomorrows salt thrown into another’s eye

Computer waves love or hate

Nuclear mushrooms,

spreading peace

Intergalactic dreaming

Cut and paste

Landscapes question,

as the questioner records

Pause

20

Home

Crumbs of roach trails store last night ‘stroganoff

Sour milk left on a kitchen bench

Overnight blues

Old jazz incense

Alone in a bathtub

$50 an hour

A porcelain doll cold and pale
Sprayed pink cheeks

Once lit eyes

Old blood fills an empty bath
with stolen chemical love

Dissolved and unseen prostitute dreaming

Shelter for one night

One nickel for a bone.

The toilets are locked

and I wonder

Will anybody miss me now?

Alone

21

Beats

Battle decks spin

perspective goals question

Budgets fly to escape,

objective influence

accommodating numbers

Realized fractions,

a collection guillotined

Meanwhile the screaming queen whispers

Marinate

22

Lungs

Mid-summer’s light stands

reaching in prayer

Hands cup clay

Blue seeds

swallow the shadows

Breath

23

Paris Cars

Ticking rocks interrupt
blue sky
red dots
A webbed cam by church windows gather
Stained glass pews stand
at attention

The green man hoists a hill

caught between bricks pane

&

colored mortar dreaming renders

A passing car beeps
the clocks tick
A grandmother peers
into empty space

Lightning poles telephone lines
A bell hangs in place waiting for the next

toll.

The blue man watches each day begin
as the hanger calls in

Never on Time

24

Blue Threads

Our final reckoning

held by a stolen bird

In a cage the choir begins

Let’s make a baby!

Tapestry

25

I bought a bible on eBay

I swallowed a packet of seduction
into the hunt
for next night’s dinner
Skinned and cold
by last year’s season
Peppered meat and salted venison
You drank the wine and left
without reason.

To hold each other and never forget
You placed a bet
and our house
became collateral damage

If you look carefully at this improper perception.

The signs begin
now at this moment
of conception.
One cycle from inception
a final bid of devotion

I heard a tune inside my head
having dreams but I’m still awake

Are they still watching?

Are we in a play?

Congratulations you won today!

26

Bright

A star sign cremation
A denied intervention
Having dreams
I’ve dreamt before
Writing a poem
and it comes into life

I ran a bath
with only hot water

I slit my wrists

all I felt was cold

The tap was endless

there was no blood

White Light

27

Nursery

A Moth & Bee were lost at Sea in a house full of lights and dark water

The Moth danced to her flame

as the Bee sang her name

and the lights

guided

Sea to ever after

Rhyme

28

Enchanting

We found a tomb
that led to a coffin
which exposed an urn
that held a heart
which covered a sin
that in time
was hidden
to hold a man
who held a throne
that dictated peace
which judged a Nation
who worked for food
to feed a family
to keep the peace
and bury the man
who held the throne
which covered the sins
that kept a nation
which held the peace
to cover their stories
that hid the stones
which in turn

would build the throne

Dome

29

Sequoias

Speaking statues death
Tombs seize in the aftermath

markets of spice

sacred scents

The holy man

and his governments

Stones broken

through time

Each man

reads a different tale

each tale is seen through a variety of eyes

believers believe pretenders pretend

the worker keeps working

Asylum

30

Sold

Balancing spires keep war from peace
the place Where 42 become six

where a feather is heavier than a heart of grief
Sacrifice guides pleasure to the next beat

A false door for spirit
a crypt for the soul
Hidden mysteries

no man should behold

Sands whisper a cherished tale
unearthed gateways

not for sale

Tale

31

Ripe

Looking through mirrors that portrait the future.

Broken frames

fear

questions number

Hate breaks

in

fear takes over

Might this be

the final stain

Lost

in a quiet

room

explanation

32

We Three Kings

We three kings of Orient are
Bearing ships we travel afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain
Following yonder star

They came to visit three Orbs dressed as one. Three Arc angels came one by one. They
came as Three Kings in search for their Queen. To seek solace to bear wisdom to find
peace. They came through the clouds with a sight-read song. To find the little boy who has
lost his drum

Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to perfect light

A prince with rubies for eyes and an emerald for a tongue. The little boy without his drum;
he turns to Time

please, may I have some?

Born a king by Bethlehem's light
Gold we bring to crown Him this night
King forever, queening weather
Over us all to reign

Waiting in a dress of red. Time watches Patience hook up the next thread.
A single prayer. A lost son. A lone promise. A forgotten golden Sun.

One day he will come.

I will wait for him; I will die for his sins.

Gliding over fire in a bed of red wine. We watch over clouds and dance under the Sun.
Three Orbs reading in a castle made of stone.

The first turns to last as the second beckons, to a sleeping star;

We beseech the fourth to move on, that in time as the day comes

we are all free to be

reborn.

33

Begin Again

A family left behind

A better life

Another’s crime

Forgotten

promised dreams

Distant lands

a palindrome of darker sands

Creation

34

Upside

There is nothing but three thousand miles

a man lost and lonely

brown eyes

in pain, a blue gum cries

inside this skin

the milk blood lye’s

Down

35

Silent Night

Silent night holy night
all is calm all is bright
Jupiter and Saturn will soon be aligned
a Christmas Star through the centuries come

reading at a table and waiting for the feast. The beast has lost his wooden spoon
and hidden my whip
where it’s safe by the moon

Round yon virgin Mother and Child
Holy infant so tender and mild

Tired by rest of heavenly skies
falling asleep before Jupiter’s eyes
awake in heavenly peace
while Saturn stands in your place

double planets melt into one
we praise the lord our savior is
born

Silent night holy night
All is calm all is bright
Round yon virgin Mother and Child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly pe-ace

Truce

36

As night kicks

As time falls by

as waves crash to silence

nothing became everything

and everything turned

to nothing.

Embrace