A Line - apr twenty-ninth ‘25

Converging in the distance
As they get closer
They're still apart
What's the horizon
Where two planes come together
Or a point where they fall

We've followed courses
We've followed maps
We're all our own
We've come detached

The dark of a tunnel
The light at the end
Is it real
What am I following

What's the horizon
Where the air meets the land
What’s the horizon
Where the air meets the sea
What's the horizon
All that rises
Sets beneath

I'll keep chasing
My own shadow
It cast darkness when the lights behind
But when the lights out front
The dark of the tunnel
Is the dawn of a new line

I'd bask in the darkness
If you were the light
I'd follow the course
If you were the line
If you were at all
I'd do it all over
Infinite times

Illusionists - mar sixth ‘25

I thought I had known magic
It took time to see the tricks
So I took some turns of my own
An axel spinning guns and roses

There's no slightness
To your delicate hands
Slender fingers leading my eyes
To wherever whenever they can

I've been cut in half
I've been pulled apart
But when they cast the lights
I'm full I'm hole in your spark

They tried to drown me
In cages made of glass
But I learned
When they called me Harry
I could break out of straight jackets

They tried to drown me
In cages made of glass
But I learned
When they called me Hairy
I could breathe fire back

The only thing
Made to disappear
Was themselves
True masters of the dark arts
While I was still standing
I never needed to return
I'd always been here

I did know magic
I've been casting spells for years
But I almost went the way
Of a deafening silence
Now I'll use my own illusions
And bound in multiple volumes
My magic's the truth

Sweettooth - feb twenty-one ‘25

We could all use some sweetness
To savor a flavor
Give our mouths something to cherish

First it came from cane
In the indies of the west
We traded in triangles
For barrels of rum
And Enslaved breathes

Then we extracted it from trees
Taping trunks
Maple birch sometimes beech
Humans being syrup suckers
We're all human leeches

Now we've come to corn
Modified molecules
It's all natural
A surplus of gasoline to burn
And our waistlines
Continue to surge

That was about my time
A tiger making things great
Spoonfuls of white crystals
On frosted flakes
And endless bottles
Cans cabinets and basement
Filled with the carbonated Classic
But it came with a hand
A quick back swing
From frustration
Leaving an iron liquid
In the back of my throat
Or nose dripping

We've all needed it
To crave a flavor
To cover intoxication
To justify bondage
To magnify
And enlargen

We could all use some sweetness
To savor a flavor
Or cover up the sanguine

Fate - feb tenth ‘25

you can run any which way
but you'll still find destiny
why battle with
a predetermined enemy
it's a compass needle
spinning in true ordinations
three-hundred sixty degrees
with no separation
you can question you can doubt
but the silent realizations loud
bend the metal break the glass
magnetic strength opposites attract
not written in tablets of stone
but the definitions
soon to be known
forward progress a reflection
experiences past
too weak to break a mold that's cast
yes maybe no
you cede control
it's freedom paralysis
but who determines it
not a creator almighty
or a design of intelligence
willful ignorance bliss it isn't
but a burden carried
through to the end

Fang - feb ninth ‘25

we climbed a mountain
crawled in a cave
retraced the steps
of a goddess
demon devouring
leaving paw prints

I remembered the day
you spoke of stretch marks
and bellyaches
how I was the cause
for nine months
but the scars remained
pale orange and sky brown stains

you nursed and nurtured
after I emerged from the dark
encouraged and smothered
building up and pushing away
the baby teeth fell
I grew more with fangs

in time
I earned my own stripes
every scar tells a story
every word a finite line
there are moments where I roar
and others my silent stare bites

I prowl concrete jungles
woods deserts streams I tame
I ride dirt roads
blaze backwoods trails
the fearful symmetry framed

when I get long in the tooth
I'll come for you

Jupiter Moons - jan fifteenth ‘25

Out beyond the night sky
Where Jupiter and her moons collide
Darkness fills a void
Left by the dying of light

Layers of glass fail in focus to see
The distant faintness of gossamer rings
And blurry distant dots
I, a Beauty, Wide Faced, & Ganymede

A painted red centuries storm
Signs of lifeless energy burn
An atmosphere of thunder
For law and order torrents turn

Standing, shivering and hopefilled in the cold
Moments captured but unable to behold
Crashing waves beneath gazes above
A universal calling to light pretold

Out beyond the night sky
Where Jupiter and her moons collide
Go experience with open eyes
The brilliance in the darkness

Everest - mar twenty-ninth ‘25

For a time you captured my rain
And then came time to migrate
But you weren't finished
No you continued to shape
I was lost in your shadow
A forever winters weathered peak
Cast me cold and fearful of heights

I settled in distant valleys
That once reached higher
Than the place I knew before
But where peaks are masses of nothing
They make mountains of molehills

A dark drama continued it's telling
I decided at a young age
It would stop with me
Turned round tragic comedies

I was drawn to nature by the hands of friends
And eventually my own lead me to seek
Movement exercising walking dreams
This would make time for a while
And homes never forgotten
When light captures frozen moments
Fingertips hand holding it's framing

My nature changed
Arranged by comforts necessity
Fears manifesting anxiety
Weakness had to be overcome
Strength rose
To be found again
I had a mountain within
And to familiarize myself
I sought the nature of wings
Aided rising above the valley

In time those distant mountains peaks
Will disappear drifting to the sea
As small and far as the eyes believe

Worth It - jan fifteeth ‘25

I will drown you in deafness with the depth of my voice. You’ll be left blacker than my eyes at the back of your hands. I will be your reckoning and I will make it worth your while.