Storm Rider
have you lost your
vestiges

ancestral memories
cell-recognition
of the cave-spaces

(fossilized primal-shaman
marks

Cro Magnon creator)

freedom of blood-flow
fear of enemies
driven to hunt

Bone-yard times
(she had those red-dress
nights)

Death-machine highs
(with the homicide wheels)

Pure Underground
so far out on the edge
no one on the edge noticed

Blinded by relfections
things that shimmer (bounce back
vitriolically)

each ray lifting a little higher
lighter and lighter
heavier and heavier
more earthbound
more starbound

(I can almost fly
now)

Only the glory
we remembered
in the end

Strange Axiology
herself reflected
(in my reflection)

Have you made
your mind beautiful
wrought it with the infinite
apparatus of deconstruction

a Ghostly avatar unnoticed
Empty plane-ride returning

(angels and gods came
alone at the pyramids,)
Inside a marble palace

I told her my poems once
through Asian streets,
forever goddess, whisping

(lost broken paradises cradled...)
Global meanderings

home
Strange Christmas of being

After the shot-gun times
(shock of realizing the
world was not constructed
of nursery rhymes)

We kept crashing to know
we were alive
(just couldn't die
just wouldn't die)

Made it to the summer fields of
your eyes
Lost in the mountains
no one knew we were there
you and I
making poems

Strange Christmas of being
home

Global meanderings (lost
broken paradises cradled...)

forever goddess, whisping
through Asian streets,
I told her my poems once

Inside a marble palace
(alone at the pyramids,
angels and gods came)

Empty plane-ride returning
a Ghostly avatar unnoticed

Initiates of the Mystic

carriers of the double edged sword
Preachers of the infinite

for images

groping in the darkness
we have reached through time
Fellow poets

So you noticed the tattoo

(I didn't have it inked in

it seeped its way through my
soul

onto my skin)

Fellow poets
we have reached through time
groping in the darkness

for images

Preachers of the infinite
carriers of the double edged sword

initiates of the mystic

MAMA SUNLIGHT

You grew food from the ground
for us
prepared it tenderly for our infant
mouths

Stitched together our clothes with your
Brilliant fingers
Velvet fabrics of earth colors

Bought land and created a home
for us to rise towards the sun in

(and when we left your arms, and
lifted our own wings you were
always,

Watching, watching
watching over us

and when we had to let you go
let you go to heaven,

We know you're still shinning,
shinning like the sun over us

J.I.C. FOREVER AND ALWAYS

Painter of love
Dancer of life
She knit the world back together
One star at a time

Our fathers fought the war
(came up strong in the
stone times)

Drove trucks
Built knucklehead
bobbers

Everything was
American

(our mothers perfect
in black and white)

Pleated skirts
they knew how to dance
slow

They pirouetted in
smiling stillness

Riding through this life brother
just ridin' through

We've seen the Sons
come up

(watched infinite suns set
over flawed paradises)

women-highs
chemical flows
machine-pain

mechanized rush of gears
hurtling through death-times

(Blinding nights of eurphoric
darkness)

Have you seen the future reaching back
(infinite relativity)

feel the curve
the entire continuum
gracefully recurring

(perhaps the universe is merely
the arch of a woman's back
gently caressed by the hand of
God)

Travel time
move worlds
(dream in reverse)

Her presence changed
Asia

(Put Goa on the map)

She rides
she flies

feeds beggars
enlightens masters

Time is moving
no fixed chronotope
can be located

(after and before all
converging into what is
perceived as now,

which is really another version
of infinity)

Or should it be said that
Time is stillness and the mind
is meandering

Architectonics of Freedom

Plane ticket
deconstruction of the mind's cityscape
immediate actualization

Galloping through artwork
painted in Childhood
Wild Horses

Sweet ride
(this life)

Time-warriors
forever-beggars

(the beginning was the end
and we're heading back there
again)

Silver-gold
(never get old)

Praying waters
kneeling mountains
wishing skies

(let your wings
grow and grow
and grow)

Pilgrims of silence
enter this place

(oceans of rivers
moving in harmony
with chaos

surrendered frequencies
of ancient futures
so forgotten they are
here)

Images
candlelight
procession into darkness
(filled with everything)

Remember the song we
sang
(way before time began)

across the water,
echoing through caves

(when we gathered
after time ended)

It was your face and eyes that
brought me back to the place
we first stood
motionless

Remember when we left this place we have arrived at
(Didn't need this future)

Masters of fate betray me
only to find they defend what's
meant to be

(stupid bargains
foxhole dreams)

Princess wishes
kept in a bottle

(real truths are too
sacred to be spoken)

Let your ecstasies
be free
Find the haunted cafes
(lost vestiges of a
time-strewn mind)

All the way rider
into the new dawn
(our ancestors knew the
power of violence
fire
darkness
flesh)

Understood the sounds
screams
creatures

(feared dream magic
thinning of the tribe
Ghost-time)

Would you like to
exchange

(infiltrate souls
blend something
of the beyond with
earth/blood)

All these visions we've
hung

(beginning where the world
stops
Dust strewn, rabid dog littered,
garbage picked, black smoke sweetness

(forever moments of
river stillness
February smoothness
Glide on by
ride on by)

roadside fried,
dirty glass filled
breathe deep, deeper

Paint the walls, streets
paint the skies over and
over and over

Paint the ground paint the
screens
paint over all the screens
paint the cars and the horses
and the guns)

Let's just inhale these dreams
we don't need to eat or see

Drink the words
(gold of poison
delicious elixir of
implosion)

Coffee clouds
crowded lifetimes
(that's the way we ride)

All we've surrendered
(set us free)

Manic tree spirit energy
circles of human light
vibe-ing into the sky