Spontaneous Prose

Oxygen (Haiku)

Breathe in and breathe out

It really is that simple

Just focus on that

Sift

Cold, hard truths

Gleaming old bones unearthed by patient sleuths

Needing their marrow sunlit

Like the consciences of aching sinners

 

I’m the most awkward of beginners.

 

Connection

Smacking synapses joining direction

May they meld forevermore

Sing praises hallelujah and amen

 

In so doing halve the burden

 

Faithful leap

Relinquish all the wares you sought to keep

Beware that which you covet

Remember what your mother dreamt for you

 

It was simple, holy, and true

Repeat

Yellow piss down a hole

Brush those teeth ground down

Make the bed clear the head

Pray for light pray for might

 

Foamy oats on a stove

Look out see the town

Grows by day comes this way

Pray for sight pray for light

 

Squirmy dog on a leash

Keep that snout low down

Pull your man best you can

No need for you to pray

Faithful night on a dime

Bring it back around

Turn the bed rest the head

Pray for flight pray for light

Estranger

It’s for you

You’re the reason

Everything

The one I lovehate

The one I forgivenever

 

The one

Who spies

Cumulonimbus spires

Feels feeds fires

Does nothing

Forgets

Marginalizes

Replaces pedestals

Instills

You are, yes

 

Absolutely

Resolute

Inside the glass

At the periphery

Empowered

 

I wish I could

Remember

Why

It is what it is

But you know, you

 

The city

The town byes

Sighs then laughs

How the clutch

Always catches

Uphill

 

Now the grass

browns where you

understood

and I’m

downwind again

dead to you

 

but I’ll

come around soon

I promise

if you’re lucky

in your confusion

 

and maybe we can

get it together

again

together

Ha-na

Here I straddle the border

between two absolutes

undulant and alone

 

feet firmly planted in soils

              that stain the soles uniquely

 

It is difficult to stand in balance

It is hard to follow both horizons

            each blinded in confused

            sunsets

 

hues conflict in a cloudless sky

while below my shadow arches

            across itself

            laid flat on coupled foreign lands

 

A figure twice approaches me

            from opposite directions

I glance across the mirror plane

 

But the glare hits me hard there

and the eyes seethe

 

These silhouettes backlit racing

            in parallel for me

These dragons consuming

            each other’s tail

 

They call to me in different tongues

            and beckon with a flick

 

Resolute to stay this ground

yet still unsure

 

I turn to answer:

One

happy new

welcome it in, 2010
60 men killed in Pakistan
suicide car at a volleyball game
not a good match
ends in a bang

starts as it wanes
the new year campaign
Everyman slogan for
hope and change
hope and change

pray in the mornings
meditate
dream

medicate in the evenings
sedate the obscene

fear

fear

fear

fear

overcome

fear

think

fear

seize the day
seize the hour
the moment
the now

the hand we are dealt
just deal with it

now

how
together now

the greater the sum of the parts
will allow

the terror
will fade into
background noise

the propaganda
will secede
to one common
voice

2010

ain’t 2012

the end
begins here

the end
begins

now