Four new poems: Then Rather Than, Last Words, broken whole, and untitled.
Then Rather Than
execute the moment
fail delay
now not then
or when
or how
not why what
nor whom
the unknown
won
*
Last Words
these are those
we leave
for them
they we hold
as our own
may we speak
softly
as if
every day
were our last
*
broken whole
a summer ride
. . . guilt accompanied
to bed land
. . . a creak curves
unsteady sleep
. . . a body run
by doubt
. . . indelibly dimples
rocks
. . . elementally carves
soul
. . . into a broken whole
*
untitled
someone died. . . she followed the heron flying so near the treetops towards horses a-field & sat beneath the sun & let down her hair & comforted the canine at her feet & found rest in butterflies . . .on the forest floor muddied by risen water & fallen showers scarabs feed on the underground of where one stands . . .& the wolf watches us the dead the living & the man who keeps me dreaming. . . i choose to soothe the chaos birthed by a sun-moon square a hard aspect to live by . . .i spit & shine all ninety degrees between ego & emotion idea & intuition confidence & coalescing . . .& i eat her decay least the stench bury my dreams
