breathe

Get out of
bed

Untangle from
sheets

And
breathe

Each day
new

Another crack at
life

vague for vagueness sake

Is it vague for good reason,

or vague for lack of meaning?

It’s a struggle not to tell,

exactly what I’m dealing.

It’s more or less about

the act, that is perceiving.

It is vague for vagueness sake

for whatever needs believing.

the dark of day

Like an archer without aim
I’ve shot myself so many times
into the dark of day.

Like a horse’s leg gone lame
I’ve broken mine so many times
into the dark of day.

Like night and day the same
I’ve hid away so many times
into that dark of day.

Though a dear friend it became,
farewell the night
which lit the way
out of
the dark of day.

two sparrow

This morning, a sparrow

gnaws at my ear, his absence

is all that I see, while sunlight

casts shadows on tree limbs

I hear, nothing but sparrow clearly

while stillness, and calm

fly all through the air, impressions

a Renoir scene, two sparrow

take wing, like dancers I hear

them tip toe paint gracefully.

a repeating theme.

If I wasn’t me

what would I see?

Life’s laundry list, a repeating theme.

In times like these

things start to get clean,

it’s just all the other times,

that have left me soiled, but boy oh boy

that’s not the point of today.

Bare bones in the wash, dare tell what they say?

If what I see, is merely a shell

then I’ve got some listening to do

before hearing that ocean once more.

hawks, overhead

Little squirrels

selectively seeking

acorns, oak trees

perfection, little hunters

in the daylight, scrounging

to find, hold, and bury

any nourishment

granted, before those hawks

circling overhead

make their selection.

option C

Surely, this, isn’t, healthy

but the alternative just seems

so entirely soul crushing

that if this, is, so, unhealthy

than there surely must be

an option C: since A & B

are now, defunct.

reading in the dark.

I can turn it on

I can turn it off

a flick of a switch

or one more thought?

For better or worse

no light is wasted

if someone, somewhere

is reading in the dark.

something to think about,

You’re not as cool

as you think you are,

you’re also

not as grotesque.

Just something to

think about, just

something to accept.

between the lines

If nothing else sticks

take solace in that,

life happens—and—you die,

between the lines

there’s simply time.

For what?

Bah! You tell me!

Besides,

I’ve got to get my watch fixed.