(2013)
Scattering shy leaves Skittering down two by two In Fall’s breeze they sink Forming such a golden path Blind-folded hearts can follow
A natural fog Too tired to remember Dowsing memories Broken alarm clock weeping Woe be to his faint tick, tock
A sudden rain flux A faintly calling whisper To turn off eyelids Yet I cannot shake my dream For just another hour
No words escape me The sun will rise tomorrow Or so I am told
Just for a moment To glimpse from dusty pages A single white flash Tenuous seconds follow Until a roaring reply
Tiny flashing lights Figures entwine together Closer and closer ‘closer than ever’ they say Beside our computer screens
The end of the road A distance we all travel Darkness as moonlight Spreads over stone and flowers That litter our path ahead
Life’s obligations A daunting sea of turmoil With crest after crest I’ll hide in this briny shell Till the tide forgets my name
To grasp at the root This longing for the seasons Hidden deep, deep down To say it’s just “Natural,” Would only scratch the leaf-tops
A sudden waking From formless blinking through dre… Please, just one more year! Surprised to glance the moon’s fac… An hour before her phase
I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow
Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest
Once my beating heart Matched steel drum lines to-to-toe Teaching metronomes But now my beat has fallen Into syncopated depths
To puddle one’s words Few are willing to admit Myself least of all To fall and land upon earth Closer to Earth than before?
The mind of a girl That swirling vertex of bright Is unreachable So we put up these steel walls When we could have built a bridge!
