Do we drift on by
And travel in the astral
I see visions on your body
How your lips remind me
Of how i long to touch you
We sleep for hours
And then begin to cuddle
Lunch hours are over
And yet we are still hungry
You demand your needs to be met
As if the shadow of a doubt
Could ever truly be erased
Oh sister choose your path wisely
Everybody wonders
At what they can’t explain
Blind as heat lightning
Regret is certainly a useful burden
So learn to surf these waves
Instead combine love with gravity
And God shall become more
Than just a sentence some day

You appear to disappoint
The voices you avoid
Anoint you in the dawn
And haunt you softly

the rain is my savior
she saves me from falling
she’s pounding the earth so hard
i’m glad i’m not redundant
and can let go of the foregoing
the sound of thunder is foreboding
but i like my coffee black
she returns for more
another violent interlude or attack
her descent creating waterfalls and rainbows
spraying beauty in all directions
i am thunderstruck
in awe of her complexity
it’s flaming mantle an altar of reverence
if you wish to be healed
drink the rainwater
falling from sky to earth
and bringing back our souls
show me your nakedness
in twilight’s stupor
i’ll try not to laugh
as you stumble home later

the wilder the mushroom
the more that i’ll respect her
and sleep deprivation is not a burden
but a rite of passage
the blessing of laughter
touches the forgotten spaces
along our spines and bodies
there are so many memories left abandoned
along the side of the proverbial road
red is the color of tantric conflagrations
and the redness of your lips has taken hold of me
impulses are firing and i am a diamond
standing at the bank of a lake so deep and wide
you are a tyrant and i am defiant
so let’s not linger on these words much longer
some call it sleep deprivation
i say we are chronically alive
fighting back our tiredness
like good children we swallow all our suffering
tangled in our platitudes
this delicious derision has got us up to no good
and the circle of outrage and oppression
has left us in the mood for some food

We are diamonds dining
On time and space
Making pathways
Through the grey skies and the grace
What path is our own you ask
For that is our predicament
To find it and walk through the fire
Please forget safety and harbor your haste
We are painting the places
We have yet to wander in
Lost hours of loneliness
Can never be salvaged
It's a promise you make to the creator
To wake and make wonder
Company can also be lonely
So we take walks in the countryside
We hike through the empty hours
And sleep in the dawn's embrace
All our hands are getting stronger
All our minds are getting longer
Extending beyond the earth
We fought for this moment
To bring form to the lonely
And songs to the lucid
We are confusing
Our consciousness with our intellect
For whomever the bell tolls
You alone must answer
When it calls you to connect

I don’t even know if you exist
I can’t teach you
Anything about this
Or that
I can’t seek you
Or pretend that we are equals
I can’t let you face
The heat of all oblivion alone
I can’t make you
Treat me less than you already do
I can’t defeat you
If I waste my time deifying you
I can’t believe in you
If I feel betrayed by you
And you can’t agree with me
If you've already been deceived by
Everyone that speaks to you of me
Are we meeting ourselves
Or are we depleting ourselves
How are we creating healthy bodies
If we are flying too high in finite skies
Making the most of alibis and lying
Hungry for the ****** hands
And sacred lands
That used to destroy our enemies
We are defeated by silent legacies
Long before the turning of the skies
The procession of lies
Is oblivious to our cries
So we observe defiance
And can only attempt
To counteract the obvious

the berries of hatred
secrete juices that are tainted
and stain the features of our faces
with their unctuous secretions
did you waver or did you savor
the fruits that they forgot to give you
look for mediocrity in fields of melancholy
and grief in strings of bikini anarchy
a blessed nothingness
respects all this drunkenness
so relax and follow these sounds into silence
and ask yourself if anyone has ever really  
overcome violence with more anger

i am dancing and rising in the heat of lightning
your armies can’t keep us down any longer
armed with youth and mint leaves
our examples are no longer relevant
i dreamed of imprisonment in universities
and the mind’s enslavement to various degrees of indignity
sever attachment to external measurement
and allow harmony to approach infinity
there are no boundaries to our creative capacity
so limitless are we to define our space and time
as amazing lovers and artists
while we slowly whither away indefinitely
in spiral towers, office buildings and glass ceilings
bubbles of complexity burst
leaving stains in the fabric of our spaceships
i seek whispered solace
and comfort on lips that address our divinity
impertinent nightmares about dolphins
wearing fedoras behind those flimsy curtains
its not their fault that they know for certain
that our ambitions imprison us in costume dungeons
i made love to you at all the dress rehearsals
while we were torn from the limbs of elm trees
like bumble bees from hives of honey
you sang this peaceful drunken warning
in hopes that our karma was already burning

As fences are felons we take turns
Tearing them all to little pieces
Palaces fall in the morning
For they alert us of our tiny perspectives
We sell our breath to the haggard
The hecklers can take
These letters of recommendation to the grave with them
I would rather take you to bed with me
But you are not ready to let me
Imbibe that watery something yet
It's like honey without the bees or the bumbling
We are troubled by troops of covetous warriors
Awarding our appetites with only knives and comforters

Born of the froth and the spray
Of Aphrodite’s waves
Humans appear impervious to the future
Perhaps we are groomed to need solutions
For only in the juiciest of greenhouses
Can true lovers grow like flowers
And bloom in the darkness
Despite all resolutions
Obvious or not, to the contrary

You bring me to my knees
Humbly speaking of course
Could I have some more please
You ask inquiring meekly
I think you already know what i need
Or is it a bit too cheeky of me to presume
And what shall we do with all this heat
And the energy that moves between us

I see you in the sky
Hammering your one glass eye
And trading stories with the wind
We fit in wherever
Feelings are placed timidly
Back in their cupboards
Libraries of humbleness
Mumbling in their dreams
We’ve barely remembered
That the embers are still burning
Hymns of confession
Each have a story to tell
So we teach it to the children
By the rivers of yesterday
We trust our bodies to fight disease
And drink from streams of light
To see the sky can be insightful
When longing to stay
Becomes more practical
Then running away again each spring
It means belonging to the daylight
Though before you've arrived it seems
That you’ve already learned
How to stay awake
Until it speaks to you in your dreams
And according to her
We are unconsciously treading
On the seams of everything

Underlying themes of dissociation
And irreverent fornication
Amidst the embedded rivers of your heart
Concepts keep you running
Into arms that hold no more honey
Until you grow hungry and lonely
Enough to let go of your ego for a moment

I adore the morning's silent symphony
When hundreds of birds are as bright
As a canopy of sunflowers
Leaning into the trees like fallen buffalo
We dream of Navajo sunsets
And isolated islands of innocence
Embedded but not embodied in a sea of ignorance

the outcomes are certain
all will fade away indefinitely
understand this and measure your life
by breaths and not complexity
densities are hiding in visionary lightning
finding new faculties every moment
we are swift in our limitless  
capacity for adaptation
a refulgent emulsion
immersed in water and poetry
under the highest authority
or just higher scrutiny
wrapped in a paranoid blanket
of heightened security
all is being watched right now
as judges redefine your beauty
if you are truly interested
in finding happiness
you must understand
that all magic is abraxas
and satisfaction attacks this
as we collapse upon the backs
of ecstatic languages....

Our bonds are strong
And so are our prayers
We envision a peace on the land
Where men, women and children
All understand their place in nature
Is sacred and necessary
That to be healthy they must take great care
Of soul, country and all our relations
As all beings are sentient
And all strangers are potentially friends
And if we have a little compassion
Then in the end we may stand a chance
Of one day getting back to the garden again

I’ve recently declined your invitations
Because there are at least a hundred valid reasons
One should never negotiate or try to reason
With a terrorist or a tourist (for that matter)
For each are very dangerous
The more obsequious the star
The harder and more likely it will fall
But if you happen to catch one
Please remember the following
That when you put it in your jar
You must close the lid immediately
I beg your pardon
Darling what’s the use in crying
You as well as anyone  
Must know (by now) how we are all trying
To be the best we can
Given the circumstances

It's a symphony of harmonics
Flowers are the architects of desire
We are longing for a multitude of wisdom
So simply listen and all will be sung
An offering among the rosebuds
A little gift from the dandelions
A poem and a portrait of the moon
Hung against the memory
Of our fragile blossoming
We are apparitions
Appearing and disappearing too soon
We fear the indestructible
Has become one more puzzle
For you to unlock
But i am not a part of that prison system
I give my spark and my soul to god
We are forever
And just as we are
We all must eventually come
To touch the gardener’s heart
With our fingers and linger
In the sound of leaves
Rustling to the heartbeat of the wind
We are turning into tulips and hyacinths
We are shining sylphs
Making funny sounds with our mouths
We are lovers entwined
Like deadly vines in your backyard
We are the seeds of the new earth
And we have been reborn
From the chaos of hurt
That was sprinkled
Like compost over everything

Forgotten painters roam the streets
And we are indeed dangerous to our habits
Manners are stately angels
Who feed off our strangeness
As we dance on tables too often
Making rebels and devils fall in love

Like a poisonous serpent,
You turned your venom into love.

Like a poisonous serpent,
You could return only venom for love.

I can smell your attitude
It reeks of entitlement
And a tad of intolerance
Are you saying that I'm no good
Because if that's the case
I'm definitely over you
You liked to waste my time
Though I never denied you
My friendship or my company
Her alibi was desperate
But she really tried to hide it
It’s painful to die
But there are times
When it's more painful to live
So what’s the point in giving in
If we are already taking more
Then we had bargained for
The stakes are as high as a mountain
Yet you are young
And think that the earth
Is just like any old apartment

let’s suspend judgements, threats and demands
neglect the ways we never understand
and try to maintain a state of graceful suspense
as the swell of illusions displays it defense
in masticated and masochistic allusions
the jaundiced complexions
demonstrate our instability and weak erections
***** waters left sullied by man
they swam in our rivers and polluted the dams
if you can perceive all these violations
you would never give up
or sigh in consolation
hours pass before the tires drove off
and the trucks were wary
of getting off course
for hours they rode
through the dark of the night
and under the cover of silence
they thought that they could hide
but no shelter was left
and all of their weapons were useless
in the face of an enemy such as this

i am blissfully happy
to be hunted by creatures
who seek to know infinity
simplicity is splendor
and tender like the leaves
are you awake or are you asleep
lost in dreams of falsehood
reality awaits for your impossible fate
to become activated
i am all that i let go of
in releasing i am free
has our ship run aground
or have we found safe harbor
the pounding of the waters is all i hear
expectations shatter my invitation
so let’s ready ourselves for battle
the sweetness of the morning
like honey in your tea
the shades of beauty that we rarely see
confide in me and i’ll confide in you
oh darling don’t you see that we are all of this
the beginning is the end and the middle too
i am lost in spite of you
please caress the hanging flowers
from within your pockets
i see love dangling like a locket
from around your neck in double bends of splendor
your hands are tied and i am wild
signs of submission
are always trying
to untie themselves from these cords
self assured and failing to notice
that her feet were bound as well
she tried to take a step
and you can guess that she fell
you were an easy target
so sweet and eager
what a complete lack of identity
so meager and false
i have remorse for the ways i punished you
all the seaside adventures
left their marks on our souls
like seagulls hunting for fish in the evening
i went and bought you that ring
the taste of death is delicious
do these sounds offend you
or do you still pretend that we are family
somebody lost themselves
along the road to the temple
and now is lying naked
distraught and derelict
somewhere between a drunken tiger
and a water buffalo

We are bleeding in the eyes of our country
A mockery of justice is spread out like sand in the desert
Combed for their treasures
I made you a nest out of an old necklace
And bribed the guards of your eyes
To surprise you with your own face's resemblance
This gaze is only a phase of remembrance
As a vase is only a vice we cannot name
The victorious space remains conspicuous
As I yearn for more than I’ve learned to make do with
We display no kindness or failure to smile
For a blemish is no mere replacement for virtue
Upon dismantled mansions I have come to know you
Upon the shores of impermanence we danced a million failures
While I played games to remind myself that I was a fool
Only our abused lovers can ever claim to know the truth

What is your weapon of choice
Go on you can tell me
I really don’t need to defend myself
Are you ready for a fight
Or a father figure to come rescue you
From tonight’s estranged entanglement
We shared our stories with the lightning
Broadcast on your stereos
The radio beckons us to listen
We are shifting into higher definition
Our ancestors bellow across the airwaves
We were framed and failed to recognize
The actual price we paid for our freedom
It's irrelevant and not reverential
To deny the light it's own fantasy of vision
We are deterred by sedentary slaves
Afraid of falling into better circumstances
Inertia is always the last man standing
I confess my ignorance to you again
It's a gamble or a preamble waiting to happen
Can you really imagine me taking your examples for granted
Taking time to untangle my differences
In atavistic states of participation mystique
And undifferentiated ecstasy
Mistakes are made too easily
At what cost are we lost to our friends and families
I believe in love at first grip
When your lips ripped me open
I instantly slipped into the hands
Of your embezzlement

*******
A creatrix
Of compassionate
Attraction
Manifests action
And submission
In perfect symmetry
The balance of
Equality
Is pleasurable
And inviting
If you are willing
To be dominated
Politely

Fallow fields never heal
We are ready to depart
So start spreading the wine and cheese
Affix your mind to the divine
Many are the ways we’ve declined
Since televisions became commonplace
So let’s deny our limits
Communicate our victories
Perhaps we will find our salvation
Amidst the flowers of agitation

Come keep time and rhythm by my side
For a bucket is as good a drum
As any that I’ve ever played before
Let's come crashing together
Like comets in the sand
Like salty lovers in the waves
It could be our last chance
To bathe in clean water
For once you are found naked
You can never again misbehave
With innocent abandon

Maybe it's all just a bit random
Perhaps we are a part of a poem
Or was it an ancient potion
Written down or swallowed long ago
Made from snow and ash
That turned us all into animals
From dirt to bone and earth to flesh
We rose from soil into soul

Maybe we're only organic forms
After all, is said and done
Growing like ancient ferns
Dangling from the earth’s *****
Maybe we are commas and semi colons
Just a few squiggly lines
Learning how to bend real low
So as not to get hurt again

Maybe we are just formica cabinets
Stashed with cash and cigarettes
And desiccated bodies
Desperately in need of some whiskey
Maybe we are impertinent cathedrals
And meaningful glances
Stolen from misleading women
Wearing only black eyeshadow

I see you naked, wasted, hungry, lonely, tired....
Human

Will you show me your beauty,
In very ordinary things?

I face the firing squad alone
Beneath a canopy of learned women
We dream of stories undefiled
Tossed into the sunrise
And damaged by a fire
We are forever broken
In the deep-fried hours of the morning
You collapse the course of history
Is it better to be afraid of the dead
Or to respect them
She whispered to me
We are all alone and neglected
Grief overtakes my exit strategies
And I am instantly reminded
Of visiting Prague in the springtime
I have no clue why i mention
These isolated images and feelings to you
Perhaps, to one day be deserving
Of something beautiful again

We are crazy to be innocent but crazier not to wait
For love to break out of it's eternal cage
And deny the rage we placed there in it's place
A fate too hard to comprehend lest we go insane in vain
We remain sitting on the ground of approximations
Fascinated with form as lovers long to warm their bodies
And practice turning symbolic apples into complicated stories

A fallen tree speaks in moans
Drowning in tears her eyes cannot see
Her hearing is tangled in the juniper and sage
Her mouth is a violin’s inner space
A facade of platitudes swell within you
Just as the grandiose defends you
Lungs full of residue and smoke
As we make our romance into
Something that vaguely resembles
Both a poem and a history lesson

Under the sheets we scream
It's an eternal dream
Feelings interweave
We seethe with anger
And breathe in steam
We are the softness underneath
Each with our own needs
Fires in our bellies
Roaring like lions
Heavy on the warpath
Quiet in the darkness
Following the impulses
Which speak to our innermost being
I'm sorry for your loss
I’m by your side
Of course
I am with you in this struggle
Come love we are double
More powerful than the pain
We are individuating
Sanity is unsanitary
You satiate me with your dignity
Infinite possibilities
Are bleeding in our vicinity

your eyelids fly in tragic circles
under black skies
your mountains crumble
putrid apples and hillbillies all return
from chaos came compassion
from darkness came the word
kindness gave birth to sorrow
and silence was never earned
your antithesis presents itself
in every situation myth is ever heard

A sovereign can either be
A king or a magician
But never both simultaneously

One person is an army
When Two are a prison
Three are a government
And Four are a reason not to drink
Five are the ways they divide you
Six are the roads that you have walked
Seven is the stars that are to guide you
And Eight is your home in the dark
Nine are the women who have held you
While Ten others broke your heart

like sacred clowns we fell down
in the cold of yesterday's fingerprints
and laughed at ourselves
have we finished eating those memories
i see you are once again resting
upon your established positions
gone are the rivers and the givers
so forever we will shiver  
while laughing at ourselves
are we finished with these watered down drinks
or do we sink to the bottom of the stream
like watered down drunks
we punched the edges of our seams
and demanded attention from your daughters
control your ambitions
and you may not get slaughtered
or perhaps you will anyway
for no one is safe in this hay pile
like needles we must wrestle with our own edges
and demand that the entrails be read
form is a figment of the imagination
and your eyes have the pigment
that i have always yearned for
please return the urns
that you’ve borrowed from those owls
whose looms are purposefully empty
like rooms without a view
you’ve burned plenty of carpets
and i'm surprised how it still amazes me
when money is shed like fleas from your armpits

The greatest minds of all time have often been prepared to dine alone.
While the those with the biggest hearts have been welcomed in every home.

Another space becomes abandoned
Once filled with infinite beings
No longer burdened by birds in flight
The cranes no longer saunter
Beyond the pale of your starry eyes
Though I stray beyond my imagination
Whose edges are softer than a bed of roses
This loss is all I know to speak of
For to breathe is to bellow like an ocean
Though you are as pale as the moon
And your blood vessels are mostly hollow
Will you ever remove the chain of commas
That hold you in sedentary slavery
To unnecessary dreams
Seeping into your coffee
I steep my mind in beauty
And keep it ready and unruly
Until I wonder if anyone
Even knows what that means
Anymore

Love is like a tiny turtle
Lost on its way back to the ocean
We are never truly alone despite
All this unceasing commotion
I have known pain like a river
And comfort that pierces like a knife
For what comes easiest is rarely the most contagious
So let's release our pride for the sake of all our relations
And try to make the most out of
The last days of summer vacations

Another afternoon spent alone,
Cataloging and curtailing her desires.

We are firmly embraced in our nature
And gathering often equates with happiness
And a massive amount of self-reflection
Or was it done to our own detriment
Have we fallen into complacency
Are we at the extremities of extrapolation
In a metropolis in dire need of a vacation
Or a makeover and respite from its own annihilation
So tonight we are busy buying the moon’s diapers
And singing bedtime songs a little bit too early

your strategies are rusted
like cast-iron in the rain
grains of rice are fussed over
by hands too small to hold
weeds are plucked with flowers
and softer are the hours
than you’ve ever even known

Surrounded by insanity we wander idly by
On islands of discovery we try to catch flies
Distances decline as we move beyond our minds
And find ourselves better off
Without the gadgets most people buy