If you buy something valuable,
Like integrity, don’t sell it.
We’ll walk through the market,
Squeezing the melons, looking
For truth.
Prayer
I have prayed some
Of my most heart
Felt prayers while
Driving on mountain
Roads looking down
Two or three hundred
Feet off the almost
Non-existent shoulder.
Don’t Worry
The more we worry about
Time, the more we despair
Of having enough: the
Faster it comes at us, the
Faster it rushes away.
When?
Some people are like
Roses that were afraid
To bloom but should
Have bloomed. And it
Is as if the sun became
Disgusted with waiting.
Walk
I walk
Toward the sea, towards the words
Sinking low
Then lower.
Dissatisfied Coyote
He’s howling at the edge
Of the woods, while the
Frigid air bites your
Fingertips.
Trip
Riding a greyhound up to
Chicago, I am insulted by
The billboards that laugh
At me and give me the
Finger.
Wish
It’s my only one true wish as
I know and understand this
Light to be my home,
Knowing up there in the
Galaxy is me. And I am up
There in my bones, built
From stars.
Census
The trees split their sides
With laughter. They snicker
Because you didn’t get up
On time. Now get out there
And hoe the garden. And
Take a census of the fattest
Earthworms.
Glory Days
Heavenly sunshine, heavenly sunshine,
The clouds move in so heaven goes
Away, but not redemption.
Wordman of Alcatraz 