Naked Side
I’ve seen the destruction
of visions, the penetration
of a good cause, seen souls
anesthetized by sadness.
The only constant is endurance,
is the thing that jumps out from
the void then reverses back
into its indifferent swallow.
One change, then the moment
slips into a new glimpse of understanding.
One small desire fulfilled and all pain
is humbled.
Dark Prophets
They hold the ghost feather.
They cry by cause of extreme imaginations.
Paranoia on pillows,
the stench of shoes and month-old towels
under fingernails.
Liberty in sleeping pills & mirrors
that have no shine.
This they have, spirits stabbed
with hunger, doubt & arrogance
raging equally by their bedsides.
Encyclopedias divulged in dead languages
& hoards of filthy critics teasing with
axe and indifference
their true-goal flower.
They crack their heads on insecurity.
They do not believe in this world.
From balconies, from strait-jackets,
from honeymoon apartments, they expose
the human guilt, delicate visions
that seduce the blind with wonder.
The Loyal Unknown
I would like to hide
from the mountains, sleep
as a thief
in the assaulted night.
How do I compare my
of slain desires,
in a bird’s thin crop.
there is
into the unfathomable, happy
past: Wolves eyes, I see
confronting with unaware darkness.
their tune so beautifully stagnant, making me stumble
into oblivion.
on Arizona ground in a dry summer,
I caught a glimpse of
convulsing
to avenge my perfect day. It was an apparition,
reconciling
to the paradoxical
cross.
are as irretrievable
Someone is watching me
from corridors.
Today, it is chaos.
Tomorrow – a child
will be born.
Mother Chimp
great apes,
does not sing
nor look for
comfort from the sky.
as moonlight upon a wave. Face
like a roadmap of a sad
primeval journey. Sad
like the first thoughts
of wasted love. Sad
like the night jungle in all its
apparent peace.
in the midday rains. Cry for the African
trees, rotting from the weight of
a human-made world.
to receive your large-heart’s manna.
The lonely climate
surrounds you
with child, near a river that carries
the many deaths of those before
your wild and doubtless
existence.
Giving Roses And Bread
I turned.
I will not turn again
from her sad space & ruin.
No wand, no crocodile
tongue will shut
me out.
The hour is blood, is
boiling, is locked
in her iron skull. Her back is straight
for the first time in months, and
her fingers tap the table one by one.
I saw her climb
the ladder & crash.
I saw the marrow leak from her bones.
I turned.
I will not turn again.
My smile will be her shelter,
and with my chains & circle,
I will build for her a garden
where the crows will dance
to drown her madness,
helpless
then gone.
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