be weary be wary someday the sun just gonna explode

mother’s eyes turn warm then cold baby cries

Father’s day is another tie see (really see) how he grins

lady Madonna hanging on the wall mirror eyes

do not fear/afraid honestly looking long enough [...]]]> honey drips in old clichés
with Pepsodent smiles
white sparkling stars

be weary be wary
someday the sun
just gonna explode

mother’s eyes turn
warm then cold
baby cries

Father’s day is another tie
see (really see)
how he
grins

lady Madonna
hanging on the wall
mirror eyes

do not fear/afraid
honestly looking long enough
will take us back
to the free loving spirit
of our birth

day by day
is always new
“go and do what thou will,
and harm no one”

she wanted to learn a love song till love turned into a noun while looking for a verb.

what’ll he do alone on a full moon Saturday night?

a tisket a tasket no and no peace does not reside in a basked.

are you still here? da ta ta ta da

speaking softly? breathing [...]]]> {..}

she wanted to learn a love song
till love turned into a noun
while looking for a verb.

what’ll he do
alone
on a full moon Saturday night?

a tisket a tasket
no and no
peace does not reside in a basked.

are you still here?
da
ta ta ta
da

speaking softly?
breathing slowly?
listening clearly?

tweet
tweet tweet

(that’s all folks

she really only wanted
one
last
tweet)

how to approach you Death Keeper the poet says rant the preacher says kneel and sometimes some say “allow me to age with dignity and die with a smile

that says “thank you”

you who know who

(“i got that smile from you”)

Hollywood Argo creators are like starching a shirt good till you start sweating then limps away drowning in their lies we DO know why hostages were taken in Iran and American’s Secret Government that disposed Iran’s duly elected leader and Ronald Reagan’s per-election deal that the hostages would not be released until he won [...]]]> .

Hollywood Argo creators
are like starching a shirt
good till you start sweating
then limps away drowning
in their lies we DO know
why hostages were taken in Iran
and American’s Secret Government
that disposed Iran’s duly elected leader
and Ronald Reagan’s per-election deal
that the hostages would not be released
until he won and Iran/Contra:
“drugs for arms”
THAT dog has no tail to wag

history
may be written by the victors
but time, given,
writes the truth

now the victims want reparations
and i say, “go to the house on the hill,
they, and only they, owe you(.)

In these good old days I tell myself out loud what to do and it’s not my mother’s voice yet is an evolution thereof…

New movie coming out: “Are we alone?”

He said he put his heart at risk She said it always is.

if there is a we how do [...]]]> of good old medicine

In these good old days
I tell myself out loud
what to do
and
it’s not my mother’s voice
yet is an evolution thereof…

New movie coming out: “Are we alone?”

He said he put his heart at risk
She said it always is.

if there is a we how do we feel alone?
mostly not, some say
someone still likes my tobacco breath
a goldie in these good old days.

how to let W. S.
Merwin know, and i want to,
it takes me and Mary Jane
to grock…
…his poemberosa i.e.
just the last moment I read,
“The Long and the Short of It,”
by him.
My theory works for me.
Does it work for you?

no Mr. Talking Head peace will not be made in the Arab world when there is peace between Israel and Palestine, peace stands waiting for Shiite and Sunni to stop killing one another thus and from hence the Peace of Islam

no, Mr.s Mossads the web is stickier for lethal secrets no place to [...]]]> .

no Mr. Talking Head
peace will not be made in the Arab world
when there is peace between Israel and Palestine,
peace stands waiting for Shiite and Sunni to stop
killing one another
thus and from hence the Peace of Islam

no, Mr.s Mossads
the web is stickier for lethal secrets
no place to hide nor run
no bobbing of curls up and down
will change the shame of
God given laws Broken
one more time again
thus and from hence will come the Peace of Judaism?

and no, Christian Soldier marching off to war
that is NOT the message of Jesus
why in this world will you believe He will return
while Christians still march off to war?
where is your Shame?

claim your shame
if you would open the door
to Peace(.)

It is at last any morning not answering to a name I wake before there is light hearing once more that same music without repetition or beginning playing away into itself in silence like a wave a unison in its own key that I seem to have heard before I was listening but by [...]]]> .

It is at last any morning
not answering to a name
I wake before there is light
hearing once more that same
music without repetition
or beginning playing
away into itself
in silence like a wave
a unison in its own
key that I seem
to have heard before I
was listening but by the time
I hear it now it is gone
as when on a morning
alive with sunlight
almost at the year’s end
a feathered breath a bird
flies in at the open window
then vanishes leaving me
believing what I do not see

from The Shadow of Sirius
published by Copper Canyon Press 2009

www.coppercanyonpress.org