Stare into the shadow’s moon eyes a crown of rain filled morning sky   lighting shock flooded lock   the trail winds through prehensile limbs horned owl knows where the tadpoles swim   ghostly grove bejeweled trove   bright colors paint the hills and hollows misted memory the golden light swallows   leaves aground awen […]

From the alcoves southern face we watch heavy rain drown the driveway divots   the downpour dimples and pocks those flood puddles   like endless tadpoles needling the water’s surface to gulp air with silver smiles   concentric saturnian circles widen as the sky’s eyes dry up and look far off   elsewhere   and […]

Humidity thick distant mountains gone   wall of dark rain ten miles long   the hilltop gives way to infinite gloom   dressed in white linen I’ll be there soon   car tires splash splutter held aloft   gauze not down a road but across   anchored in loam as they scratch the sky   […]

I don’t know why we painted the front porch this silver grey the wood is still flaky still brown under it’s neutral coat like those kids flapping around in their plastic cable knit sweaters feet still land bound with the rest of us   neither do I know why I pretend to relax on these […]

silence is silver more like the moon resting in darkness crescent illumed   show us the stairs that we might too   have stars for a pillow   oh murmur of the planets silence your yellow tongue the shuffle and the rustle lie down here as one   and dream in emptiness where lucidity is […]