When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the stre… Young men sharp as mustard. See them. Men are always

A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since depart… Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried token… Of their sojourn here

When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an att…

Your skin like dawn Mine like musk One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a

Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone

We, this people, on a small and lo… Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way o… To a destination where all signs t… It is possible and imperative that…

Funky blues Keen toed shoes High water pants Saddy night dance Red soda water

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win

You drink a bitter draught. I sip the tears your eyes fight to… A cup of lees, of henbane steeped… Your breast is hot, Your anger black and cold,

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything that… Some people wrap their lies around… And you sit wondering

Pretty women wonder where my secre… I’m not cute or built to suit a fa… But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say,

Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city

She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of… She came home running