creekside meditations

1

shhhhhhhhhhhhh.

flow. and circle like

rising twilight fog.

no need to ask. or

say thanks. all

chores are done.

all thoughts, worries,

grocery lists, condoms,

pocketbooks and scribbled

pick-up lines,

forgotten.

who you are

is the same

as all the rest:

keep practicing.

2

perching like a battered heron

near roadside vultures

praying before stabbing

whisper before digging

just another mind unplugged

silly silly silly silly silly.

3

july crickets

scrape their wings

like teeth on screens.

4

over and

over

a clock that cannot break

can ever

be broken. no hands

feet arms

no eyes.

just smiling eyelashes

and

a

sun dial

birch.

5

a temporary vase

fused

from Impossible petal shards

under

an embering

sun.

6

iridescent minnows.

trident wrappers.

blown out goodyear tires.

7

as long as the ocean is

short. as short as rain

is slow. and always

falling while rising.

mist:

blowing into clouds.

8

things trying to hold

onto form just changing

into other things

like chainsaws exposing 

pine rings. like swallowing

your grandfather’s piss.

9

take off shoes.

put clothes

in a pile.

no postmarks or finger

prints. just waiting with

you. is what you do.