Poem: Where is God?
I shouted my name through the vineyards,
but there was no answer.
My name died on my lips.
No stone would consecrate it.
The vines parted no more.
Birds flew where I had been.
The rabbits vanquished my footprints.
Invisible to the world of matter,
I went after the wind,
but made no rustle among the leaves.
Listen, heart of brown,
what is it that truly matters?
reach is infinite,
yet contains nothing:
Her flowers dying in a vase.
A book or two.
Stills of a vanished life stuffed in a shoe box.
A tea ring left upon a polished table,
reflecting the blinks of sunlight
through slatted shades.
A door opens somewhere;
footfalls on a hardwood floor;
a radio and distant murmurs;
a cool sheet drawn upon my head;
the buzz of a fly that drifts away;
whisperings of this or that;
a closing door,
then nothing more.
(2015)
