Golden phantom
ceaselessly haunting
ghosts of flesh & blood

crazy power jumps the gap
broken infinity loop
Inverted double helix
(twisted muse)

We answer
the questions you don't ask

(there was a time
for a perfect meeting
between destinies)

Entire stars
functioning on binary
impulses

(heaven help the spirits
that turn away. )

Broken binary system
floating out of orbit
magnetizing a miracle

~Water
~Air
~Earth
~Fire

(Light
Darkness)

the only things
that remind them
of each other

I'll bring us back
into the heart
of the divine

Soldier of God
beyond the battle,
of Good & evil.

Sisters of the morning
sisters of the dawn
(leave your goddesses behind)

This mortal famine
writhes with blood sweetened
time

(writhing
with blood sweetened time
we have our moment

which is the nucleus around which
infinity revolves)

She gave me;
(cups of rain,
handfulls of light)

seasoned pots of meat,
with memory sweetness

(each tear was a diamond)

Where
is the place
that everything happened
(between us)

(in the spider's web?
light that's travelled past the earth?
time standing still and gathering dust)

Don't think I'm
writing these poems to
you
(it's more like us, or
no-one, or the world,)

If I thought poetry
could make you
appear before me
then perhaps
(I'd think my poems
and censor them from
the public)

I know that no-one is reading
these poems

(and that I'd like to make you
appear before me in
the purest of forms)

& infinity
only you me

only you me and the spider know
(It's a legacy)

If you believe
in what you really believe in

(drop everything
that's not truly yours,
stop making excuses for other people
(people that have already chosen their
lives))

meet me
in the space where
seasons change

We welcomed our vicissitudes
(we cursed them
we blessed them)

At every shift the dancing
dyads of ourselves
never breaking away

stretched to the distance
their remains a tenous strand
between us

(perhaps it's that one breath
we made out of two,
the single light
that shines)

Fog Lifts
Bio-Chemical Shift
Welcome to your new life

She had a tendancy
to shine all over

(we had a tendancy
to burn like light...)

To My old Friends, Dylan & John

These words are for my friends
The waves we road
the roads we rode
(the times)

Wild and Rough & weary
the bullets we dodged
the dreams we smoked
the lives we dropped

The music,
always the music
drove us on

carried us across the sky
across the world
across our lives

Don't imitate the
warrior's path

without the scars

First bleed
First die

Then comes liberation

~Gosho 1342-1401 zen philosopher-warrior-poet

I want to teach you
how to be

Without achieving
without doing

How to kill
without moving

~Gosho 1342-1401 zen philosopher-warrior-poet

Almost twenty years ago
I read an Ira Cohen poem

Where an angel
ripped it's flaming head
from it's shoulders

(and it changed my
poetry)

Yes my love
this is the infinite
this is us (trapped in a fragment)

We don't even know
our own hearts
(racing into darkness)

Wearing a mask of conformity
your own nakedness is alien

U think you're looking
into my eyes
it's just a digital ghost
(some hollow recording)

interpretation of a broken
dream you looped
over and over

In silence,
in aloneness
apply warpaint

Re-enter the world
between worlds
emerge from shadows

Soldier of Destiny

from the no-space
to the now-space

(we know who I am)

It's always been about bein' free
& the rock n roll

Look into the mirror
that's just a mask you see
(that ain't me)

My truth is tattooed
on my skin
(wish I coulda written your name
in)

Wings