Poems

Vented ether

Waking slowly.And after all that, the moon is gone – casting a silhouette form around a lone pine tree. We are on the horizon. The only things that can remotely be called truth? The hardness of the ground. The uprightness of your body in relation to a massive rock beneath you.The temperature of the air.The …

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Coyote pups

The coyote pups cackling this morning. The big white barn owl on the hunt. Sounds like fun, playing wildlife.While I play wildlife here.Everyone just a step or two away from the elements, and maybe, certainly a death out there somewhere.The ultimate drama.The story told all life long.What’s it all for?There’s absolutely no evidence there’s any …

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Extension

Further. You go further,and that means questioning the very root and basis of everything,and finding the jokes and laughing yourself silly about the nonsensical beliefs you made;the passions you jiggered up,the plots and schemes learned, lost, and stolen,and all of your ambitions tripped up by rules, All the times you played with the rhymes,All the …

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Preaching (A loose essay)

I don’t care, and I don’t have a mind complicated enough to think that what I care about matters.That is the surrender required.Could you have an argument with the weather that matters or changes anything?“This year there have been too many clouds. We were robbed of a summer.”Who’s doing the robbing?You and your silly thoughts. …

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Pleasure

You look at me like you want something.And I doubt that it is simply sex.You want to know your self.But you think it comes through me.You make me into a character your mind loves.That character doesn’t exist. But of course it does.Because you made it.And I am here for you.And you are here for me.Pleased …

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