Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Twenty Thirteen Fading: Janumay

These yester months are vanished.
           Filed into vacancy
           where yesteryear and yesterday gone
           without trace.

We hold so tight to morrow
            beckoning every pleasure to alight
                              every best dessert
             but our grasp is lost.

                               No matter the glove,
                               we cannot hold shadow.

Twenty Thirteen Fading: June

Karma Yeshe Donden:
             survived near-fatal birth,
             portrayed in the wrinkles of an old man,
             great dark eyes survey his world,
             he lounges naked in golden bath of sun,
             invents throat songs,
             quaffs deep droughts of formula from father far,
                                 (whose bedside portraits
                                   recreate Karma's smile
                                   over and again twenty four seven)
              discovers new ways to animate
                                    his tiny new born limbs and fingers
              learns the lines of his father's face
                                    within frame of eye phone.

Will you one day know your white dry grampa
               who lives across the Earth?

               Better know your father first.

Twenty Thirteen Fading: July

Al Gore, our planet's hero,
      gathered a great host of champions
      told us why our voice matters:
                  we're burning
                  the only home
                  we've ever known
                  blindly slaking unquenched greed.

Twenty Thirteen Fading: August

Tessa's gums sliced open
            jaws sawed
            face rearranged
            blood drained
                                  and clotted
            neck swelled
            tongue numb
            throat dry
            IV dripped
            lips drooled
            teeth wired
            tears splashed
            milk shaked
            pills crushed
            pain killed
            syringe squoozen
            elastics bound
            body weakened.

            Ever so slowly,
                                       strength returned.

Twenty Thirteen Fading: September

Culminating harried grind
     of many months,
     maelstroms of complaint,
     tummults of to-do tickets,
     tangled hass of thorned canes,
     mangles of meetings,
     persona postings,
     eclectic dysfunction

     :
                  a date in the sand
                  September 5 arrived
                  our new site went live.

                                 such as it were.

Twenty Thirteen Fading: October

One large throng
Forty-three strong
Filled our home for an evening.

That aside,
Recollections hide.

But the Nyungne Retreat
sparkles still, in memory's eye.
3 days: no words
2 days: no food
1 day:  no drink
Every day: many mantra songs, Sangha's voice
                  spilling light, counting jewel beads of
                  praise to the Prince of Kindness
                  our melodies burnishing the gold of the Buddha's
                  elegant poise.
                  Our bodies falling, sliding over polished wood
                  as monks clicked time.

                  then, a quiet dark bicycle glide
                  to Chandra's B and B.

Twenty Thirteen Fading: November

one mere month ago
now vanished
busy let it slip away.

Twenty Thirteen Fading: December

Son Two, Daughter One going, hurtling, preparing to
                                        be unprepared for vicissitudes:
                                             - of the floss-loched, green eyed variety
                                             - of the ship-rocked, mirror iced variety.

They wing carbon streaks, inflame the stratosphere,
          wend toward sweet showers of the
          brilliant blossoms of the spring times
          of their lives.

Not long ago, we yodelled days of Christmas,
          gorged on grass seeds, cranberries, pine nuts,
          squash cubes, yam mash, wine red,
          sprout balls halved,
          pilafed rice, mushed rooms, gin fizzies,
          un stuffing.

          we chopt the tree on dead ostrich acre,
          calmly watchd by golden eyes of the ghosts of eviscerated lions.

          we tapped Caped Breton's beat,
          seated in Royal velvet,
          high above nodding silver sea of old folks' heads.

          We gamed, movied, gifted,
          mouthed a great multitude of discussion.

Not long before, we crushed twixt
          meatstick gnawing Five X bodies,
          droop wadding with slogan breasted
          T shirts
          down main street Disney land.
          We loggered a water fall,
           ears puffeted by drunken skeleton gun fight

(while roads upon lanes upon motors upon tires wrapt round us non stop)

           We toured the halls, the fountains,
            the arched golden futures of possible.
           We clattered up down Knob Hill
            from Hong Koing to Osaka.
            posed 'neath Santa's beard,
                                 cloaked in twinking fog.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Thanksgiving Monday on Mount Douglas

A slump in my spine
     bent toward shadows of
     brown-spotted oak,
     its grooved bark blotched
          in pale lichens,
     knee of trunk thatched
          in mossy fur.

A dry frog's rattle
     ascends thin above
     city's vagrant purr.

A lone ant, thorax ochre
     head, tail black
     pauses to clean antennae
     meanders rock
     traverses tiny jungle.

Delicious gold and green
     have wrapped this autumn day.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Big Bloom

Great brilliant blossoming
          unfolding to reveal further
          folded buds, pink and white,
                     seeds locked within fruit
                       within flowers, wrapt
                         round by the humming
                           shimmering wings of bees.

Not born, because this profusion
is ever-bearing.

Not centred, because every molecule,
every dot of space radiates brightly
in all directions.

Not bound, because the ropes themselves
unwind, spilling
                liquid silver rivulets into the sky.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Rotting Bin

Rat's wheel - chewed through
         roundhouse of mould,
                             fruit flied.
                             De natured into
                                  rich chocolate sponges.
          Concentration of the ten
                                            thousand
                                            rotttings
                  pin drops of Chroma
                                       Magnetic
                                       Un leashments.

           Triggered up, poised in dank towering heaps
            crawling with microscopic
                                   roiling
                                   profusion, prolific.

Waits in hypoxic stench
           Moulders oozily.
                  Dripping brews
                                  Tea N Tea
                                  But with drenched
                                          fuse.

                   Wait yet. Bury the sunlight.
                     When
                                        Spring dawns,
                                             its leechy
                                             clay starved
                                                        berift,

            Then richen it. And scour out the nesting tub.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Large Ensembles Concert Part 3

A cruft of pine, wash'd
    in the river's spine
         upon it alight
             wings black and
                        orange
              becoming bright
                    midst seas of
                         brown,
                            roiling torrent
                     circling foam
                        and serpentine
                            eddy.

Sweet Caroline
       with your moon shine
               tequila
           and Savannah
     bows and melons
           ribbons, extravagant!

Large Ensembles Concert Part 2


Here beneath the sea,
         a slurping elephant
                  you will spy
             gliding like a shadow
                   a basket of cloaks
                   a calliope wagon
              turvey topped
                   wobble maced
              ponderouslywheezing 
                   stumbling across
                         tin parquet
                             so be woven
                    rugs of aluminium


On yonder, shake the buttons
     on play, on street
          the dance of porcupines

      still fall
          three long years of
                   cold ice melting
          hovering in.
                   only in an onion
                   crisp and sweet.
                            So neat.

Pony ride'em pony
         paint'em
                  indigo with 
                  carnations
         glitter on the clops.

Hammer bell, clear and silver
         clatter moss and timber
                  a hedge of buttercup
                            daunting
                            shivering
          pizza, factory the fizzy
                                 straw the 
                                 toad sundance
          Machino moonshine
                   gotta wigwam  gotta
                           Jonny Box
                   gotta vroom on.

Round the straw bales
       three grand rows of
             spice a broad
       rattle of the rails
             thunder on the plain
                    the heavy stones,
             vibrating, lifting up
           knocking spokes,
                 tumbling up

Large Ensembles Concert

          U     u      u          my heart
              blest with music
               mittens, trapezes
               schnitzel with noodles
                              don't feel so
                              every highway
                              you go streams
                                     of dreams
                              over swung by
                              swaying footbridge
                                     dream ropes
                                     dream river
                                     dream fall

In the white birch grove
     softly fall the tongues of
                    winter
     greenly glow the catkins

                   Lunge for troves
                               the bull, how he paws
                                             how he steams
                               how glints his brass ring
                                             restless on the sill.

                   Dutch crost mice from
                                       above
                              navagating a great
                                  rolling hamster wheel.
                                              through heav'n.

Polyphonal growling......................................

           Full groan, thrall'd even
                 bending sevens
                     plucking dawn
                         deep fade the
the                        grey lady
tides of                     upon a
spruce                         wrought iron
   and                               throne
flint                                     kept.

Boom Chocka lacka
Boom tip top
           tip top
      under the sea,
                freezer lockers
                chained and rusting
      swaying in tune with
                ink tides and chalk dust
                                           hills.