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
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
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
sleeping by a stream
the stars
f
e
l
l
t h i c k
like s n o w
that night
and the dew
gathered them up
in splendor
to impress
the jaded dawn
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
