JERUSALEM STONE
Church, house, grave, wall
no give at all
Category: String Too Short To Save
JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM
Three days now on the Mount of Olives
watching the old city postcard change
from two to three dimensions
TRUTH TO TELL
TRUTH TO TELL
It is well to learn
the lies we learned to tell
will not make us well
THE LIZARD
THE LIZARD
The lizard’s curled up
at the back of the brain
And the lizard’s
a cold blooded cuss
And whenever the heat
gets turned up too much
the lizard kicks up a fuss
CHERNOBYL
CHERNOBYL
Nature breaking free of science
floats its angry cloud to Red Square
Science in self defense – seeds the clouds
A gentle rain falls with the deadly ash
No one is harmed, if you don’t count
trees and peasants
WINTER NIGHT – PRAIRIE
WINTER NIGHT – PRAIRIE
Coyote joins me
howling at the moon
Much lonelier to appear
in a million city eyes unseen
FREEWAYS – HOUSTON
FREEWAYS – HOUSTON
Every day – high tide and low
the same metal corks float in and out
Unable to escape the pull of silver
and the carbon covered moon
SILK ROAD
SILK ROAD
A thousand worms on a mulberry tree
As soft as they spin and as hard as they try
can never match the silk of your inner thigh
SALVADOR DALI AS ROCK STAR
SALVADOR DALI AS ROCK STAR
Fails because of melting guitar
VOICE DIALOGUE
VOICE DIALOGUE
The facility of the facilitator to facilitate
depends on the faces of the facilitator
the facilitator has the facility to face