Event clouds, tag clouds—
the buzz, the behaviors of
bots busy as gnats.
HARDCOPY
How deeply words fail
to impress the page upon
which the ink stains dry.
HISTORICAL
Jesus lies buried
in scripture, Christ’s cradle in
worms and conjecture.
IMPOSTURE
Every position,
held, imposes its posture
on the long poser.
IS ON A BUSH
The world of dew is
done with struggle and awaits
evaporation.
We got married in
Not February.
JAMES
I have a first name.
Others may or may not use
it—but there it is.
MAGIC
Poof! Overnight the
humidity vanished. The
air turned light and sweet.
MODE
Mall was remodeled
twice in a generation
in a modern style.
MOSES
God’s massive missive
for the submissive mostly
scolds the transgressive.
NIGHT CLARITY
A single moon makes
bright the evening over this
our only home world.
OOBI
The projected I
really registered that tap
on our right shoulder.
ORANGE
In vineyards, time sweeps
green the constitutional
roll of
POINT OF PURCHASE
Clerk punched the keys real
hard, hoping to hammer some
logic into it.
PREY
As the mantis its
own kind consumes, so the hands
of humans grapple.
PROBONO
The thought of free has
me picturing sunup on
a day without bread.
SCATTERS
Before you drop, your
daydream collects the crystal
your nightdream shatters.
SEALTEST
Red as a barn on
a farm, a form visited
just once in childhood.
SLEEP
Utter density—
another immensity
of the city steep.
SPIN
Jet lag sets in, though
set in my place, in space, I’m
watching the world spin.
STAMINA STRENGTH WILL THE WAY WHATEVER
Straight as the ray of
steel that stays you through the days’
many distractions.
THAT ALL-PURPOSE EXPOSITION
First thirty seconds,
a mumbled yeah explains the
next ninety minutes.
THE RELIGIO
End: heaven or hell.
Cycle: birth, growth, death, repeat.
Exist: pure, in pain.
TIME AND TENSION
As load is lifted
the gravity cavity
becomes and then some.
VINYASA
Breathe unnoticed. Bob
like the lotus floats through noise—
with effortless poise.
Not wealth, but wellness—
the well of a will kept deep
pure and cool and calm.
