The Other Side

The Other Side

I feel comfortable when

I take responsibility for

my own well-being, and

see through to the other side

of an experience:

I can protect myself, and

if I fall down, I

can either pick myself back up

or make a comfortable place for myself

on the ground.

(10/31/2009)

The Moment

The Moment

I remember a day (well,

really, lots of days) like this

Feeling I've got laundry in the dryer

And I'm lying on my bed in the next room

Listening to some music.

You'd rented us a condo

on the coast, and

Picked me up from work—

It was a sweet surprise gift,

I felt, for the both of us.

Cozy and nice, it was just we two

alone, away from all the rest:

Our own gentle world.

I think there's poetry in this,

the poetry of living in the moment,

With laundry in the dryer and

Us two lying on the bed in the next room,

Listening to some music.

(10/25/2009)

Surrounded

Surrounded

I step across a field alone,

as bent

And tossed tall grass abreeze the world around,

Made amber-rust by hard and sunny days.

I walk

surrounded by late summer hues.

As acrobatic dragon-flies nearby,

Hunt

two or three, surprise by angles' speed,

Half drunk, half keen, their territorial chase

I watch,

then pass them by on my own way.

I find

no thing, just grasses' drying stalks – and:

Time is th' entombment of this bodily Being.

A palpable force, we must contend, and join

Each,

cut by moments, exceeding weight or wind.

(10/21/2009)

Ubi sunt?

Ubi sunt?

I lonely wander meadow ruts where

Cobble rocks and soil trace forth

And stop me now at water's edge,

All steps before led to this point.

The steady breeze lifts up the pond, a

Cool tone wafts on endless breath, as

Rhythmic ripples tap the rocks, yet

All songs voiced presaged this sound.

Birds coast and fly the dusk's approach.

The water's dark beneath their feet

And noble hilltops fringe the trees.

All souls to now purchased this sight.

The sky lets blue and green on waves,

And gold is the sun on the foam.

I sit upon a shelf and peer:

All life to now was worth this wait.

(10/11/2009)