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enter my soft world

crow hop through the pinhole — time slows down
sanguine blossoms
     crepe myrtle rain falls inside the breast
suspended animation within a wormhole
a spherical world, ephemeral
             with encroaching edges of opaque mystery
                          ; creamy black velvet
             skin becomes sky
a splattered arch of liquid sunshine,
                                       flung across the milky way,
             the center is blown-out
a cricket enters god’s eye

a burning in the sky

the question comes to you, in
glass shards, riding a shock wave
entering your body, as you race
toward penetration; toward light
brighter than the sun, bathed
in yellow neon of fantastic glow
your ears shatter — deaf with chaos
the mystification of pure tone
as the flaming rock plunges down
into earth turned upside down
driving to enter the graves, of
not so long deceased ancestors
denying possession of the answer

alaska

alaska

to lie down to sleep, in gray-green glacial stream; inhaling icy emerald current
while majestic monsters hold their places against a draining lake
sockeye clouds whisk
clinging to mountainside
my head resting softly on quartz and granite
cradled by smoothness sculpted epoch erosion
dreaming on cold pillows of speckled eggs
the natives are hunting deep within the forest of a moss covered blanket
spruce and hemlock creep into my side
rooting into viscera
salmon has returned, back from the salty sea
to be greeted by death
bear heeds the invitation to replenish fat reserves
moving down from slopes of steep rebellious youth

claw and teeth are here to maul the fasting fish
transformed in a struggle, now clad in ruby red with greenish head
metamorphose males, acquire humpbacks and hooked snout horror
as the sow feeds her cubs in a gluttonous orgy of pink flesh fish
half a carcass discarded; left behind to rot on the stream’s bank
in his dinosaur body, raven calls out the kill
despite their violation the behemoths return
led by ancient instinct, across countless miles
plotted on nautical charts of primitive thought
final destination fixation, the place of conception
within nests of stone
eggs are carefully deposited to receive showers of milt
an expansive wilderness of blooming fireweed, kaleidoscope mind’s eye
signaling the coming end of short summer smitten
meditative animal mind, breathing jaws of essence
unforgiving aboriginal frontier
steeped in flesh and bone
locked hostile ice and stone
hearth and home — alaska

alaska
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dusk walks in

sororal moon and willow child

silent rivulet; splits prophetic
the zygote's inner hourglass
forever dreaming to believe
circle streams meander oxbows

dawn’s lover and betrayer
the sanguine wave of indecision
sees into the parabolic mirror
the duality of gemini twins

as much for again, today
sororal moon, with splendor
and salt of tearful hands
emanates the soft touch

bending willow child, joyful
(nature’s lunar doppelgänger)
smooth in lowered silk voice
birthed between the thickness of sod walls

her angelic countenance
leaves behind the alloy reflections
folding beautiful in secret lakes
under heresy’s wine dark sky

in sigh — in sigh

falling in a dream

déjà vu
if only
; sisyphus
could be
crushed,
ground
to dust

— human
lust, on
the cusp
mistrust
for
eternity
is too,
long

i wish i could speak in technicolour

breathe deep within
the cresting waves
of air molecules
as they turn inside-out
flowering geometry
vibrant in their mutations

see how the particles
are all interconnected
oscillating revolutions
arranging and rearranging
endlessly — driven by
a pulsating heart

reach across
the expanding universe
to awaken the webs
vibrating deep within
the soft bone marrow
of our existence

life’s commonality
spreads out beneath
the depths of the sea
and the star child
is not out there
but is inside

talisman