uprightness lie and line

Congratulations if you made it through to the last day

the day will go by faster than you know it (be safe)

It’s beginning to be past
my discovered direction
had I questioned in mind
my mind’s reliability up-
rightness lie and line I
come to know the morrow
you spoke to borrow me
of my word and quiet

Sorrow silent expedited
why the slow dry of iron in
concrete to keep me in
captive contact whiling
ride on intransience of
air a pavement predicate
on weight collective press
the imprint, meditated

As we on our way to today’s
planned (self) examination an
(un)educated foray in rows
we players mantic wait
in soliloquy bated be-
yonder pale face me so lily
seeming sequestered rest
or let our will be’s be
(arrested)

I got disbanded

To perfection and a fit you
as a youth first saw fit pre-
cluding your impertinent per-
using history and books in-
cluding the trials of tribes I‘ve
been and have been as you con-
cluding solutions from the new
iteration on paper of prayer
and alarm told by too many
hands to have virginal grain

Its words were circular not to
deceive one to what isn’t true
but as necessity to be true
to patter(n) pithy speech has
struck into to believe beliefs
as insiders steely or stolen an
edifice imposing as if heights
had inhere to one stubborn
apparent only in sparser airs
where we range we circle a gain

Ranging vast as we had in
band and simultaneously slim
we begin again as the neck is
breeched the next is breathing
downy, heirs receiving, me

(don’t) hit it and quit it

My (old) life began in a can-
tankerous clan, an epiphany
become literal in the blink
red tinted fuels tainted
more than the air and ground
with their fires dance and
beckon all as one called
for in the umbra assemble
to fall will be quicker if what
the chords gives rise to hits

All existence in a summit
you built cunning from hills
expense transit and rent
into shires you cannot live
down to many shores telling
what the next disposition of
condition swept in straight
line and sanity (un)even
level as you will tell
ahead to scope to ends

We fell riveted to fight
to fights undecided
first felt too many to be
many sided yet we fell in
line align and coincided

like acid

Had a bad taste the gift
of generations eyes on
me son and champion be-
come befouled how loud
surroundings drown in
worth without counting
worse for the square well
found on your final round

Making history’s every word
simultaneously flourish and be
obsolete as we heard pre-
tenders like preachers be
believed for an arc of which
craft is after thought and
gods wander not lonely
as constant as clouds

Doorstep where you catch at
the last yourself midair
absent reminders where
remainders of their stable
breathed in the bargaining
block ungainly as the sun
dries all the otherwise told
provisos by (word) opening

moody close

What you wouldn’t expect is what
you would by adamant respect
design to be another one’s
province as it was beautiful
as you the first decades wore
in manner outrageous man
tell of a heart in his fits and
start an identity unharnessed
(mar untarnished)
Repentance is an old world
true to older mysteri-gem and
strata easier to believe them
than escape litanies of … the
dead answering in your dark
moods instead speak inspired
haunts would have had you have
had you spirit to move
(as spirit did)
As wood after storm we con-
forming into an undiscovered
firma undisclosed uncovered
so we may extricate and rein-
in the shadow doctrine of a
half anticipated and lived
discovery pre-trial we seek
have we the magnitude
(complete of me)

(earplugs)

Test of the emergency
fell dead as would be captive
head seeking upside be-
side you play I didn’t get
to rise from sideways beam
and the volley passes for in-
ward delivery kin you save
by silence or admission
twinned as all about felt
conditioned with-in control

As the screech bird flies
we lie indifferent beneath
them of a size unlikely to
be victimized as always we
tarry not caring what hook’s
tearing for my love resides
in hides in a thick situated
travails (it) prevails (of) ex-
pertly turning cheeks speak
vassal-age pleas re-sounding

Health held in absence
of contact known only in
knowing you ken not by skin
but by contact sinking in

(I) ain’t that precious

Vote of the senses I’ve left
more than money from mine
discriminate as day is kept
a course of small change is
embattled with the earth
to turn silver where you
till or gem when next to
let edges delve her curve
deliver rarity in that
band as saxifrage in sand

I said precious is my
relative so soon are (you)
two thoughts plotted on
a chart of charges shows
their current and outlook
flows steady to end them
bend and read to an other
curvature showers spark
devour gaps between con-
tact, ground and collapse

We lived in spheres before
we built and met and knit
another cover of the world
of us lift fit of litter see
an eye redeemed debris
(we keep concentrically)

(leaving me) behind

Who’s leaving now we slip
in unison communion telling
what of the meal we‘ll leave
at table as prophecy full-
filling the subtle favor of
the bud or urgent hunger to
tear limb with muscle you will
you won’t you I leave behind

Heat is a balcony above
you oven perched smother
some other day defining
collision of energy and
us as food to human in
transition the lot of which
exists for this condition
is only as it exits felt

Blood on the house a ritual
a towel a temptation
as tomato and carnation
squeezed we are all fruit
we all flower and until that
hour of departure nest
by stem and vine I don’t
see whine following leaf

“I remember that I have to take”

She had it in for me
since leaving the latest
two eyes she tries sarah’s
tops on to make them break
or blink gaze today’s betray-
all story’s all for another
look in the news if you
merit where wear it

Life with your neighbor’s
memory of righteous
conduct and contempt can
you forget it whittle idle
as his wits when passions
hit a less reflective sir
faces terrors at the hands
of his he peers forthwith

And fifth in with a pony
show me her pedigree sin
something you recount to (her)
mother re-contrived as any
country sings its hail to
theatrics per static
run for any reason but
one, constancy, was run

tonsil tock

Tickle at the back
you have one passing
awareness and one death
you have persisted without
breath obstructed as god
would have it would have
you turned heaven‘s hue
should you fall again I
behind commit and cry

She kicked me for speaking
ill speech even teasing
in tone turn to clapping
truer than two hands can note
notes sounder than they
spell unintelligible until
one leaves the linear two
the sphere deterred before
(un)toward fits had wore him

Out again to sense pent
demeanor housed discrete
or bear on two feet fur-
ious not to have the sense
given to the suspense
of good thinking taste and
grooming furthered in his
course of medicine a rest
to bases base at their best

Only come this way once
in a lifetime of days
however you pray they
bleed however you bleed
they pray why cannot I
be the lion, be bruin to
pains you bury through
fury through fury buried

Onward and Over – Rogue Valley

Onward and over the seasons turn
Im not letting you go
Im not ready to go
Stay until the morning shows
after all the people go
I won’t deny
When you leave the winter rushes in
Through the holes in the sky
like lonely islands

Onward and over the seasons turn
Im not letting you go
Im not ready to go
Former and future it all will merge
Im not letting you go
Im not ready to go

So youre making plans
Ive studied all the maps youve pinned up
on the clothesline
but theyre only temporary trails
borders will change
waters will rise
leaving lonely islands

Leave our bodies and look on them
Our news ones could be anything

Former and future it all will merge
Im not letting you go
Im not ready to go
Onward and over the seasons turn
Im not letting you go
Im not ready to go