Tell me your secrets
I’ll tell you a lie
Bid me good tidings
I’ll bid you goodbye
Proffer me kindness
my heart a deaf ear
Timeless your offer
—whose moment I fear
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
Tell me your secrets
I’ll tell you a lie
Bid me good tidings
I’ll bid you goodbye
Proffer me kindness
my heart a deaf ear
Timeless your offer
—whose moment I fear
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
Will you live with me forever
will you scintillate my dreams
Holding title to my wishes
the island in my stream
Will you live with me forever
in a fantasy so wild
Making love to the hereafter
—our one and only child
(The New Room: March, 2023)
Old enough to reason
young enough to care
My heart eloping with my mind
mustard seeds to share
Adding to the zeitgeist
new bricks within the wall
Laying rhythms one by one
—heeding fortunes call
(Villanova University: March, 2023)
Losing connections one by one …
my mind has drifted back
This moment caught within a cloud
the past sharp as a tack
I reminisce in present tense
new frames of reference gone
With that most recent going dim
but still—I hear that song
(Bryn Mawr Hospital: March, 2023)
Songs of eternity
poets romance
Words of sagacity
—lyrical dance
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
The naive garden
is filled with snakes
To slither and nest
—where ignorance waits
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
A therapist skirts the edge of lunacy
like a priest engages sin
An evangelist disavows poverty and fear
like a snake that sheds its skin
Together they paint the corridors black
with a promised light to come
Their patients and converts alone in the dark
salvation zero-sum
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
The bridge to Satan
is paved with envy
Voices collapsing
in currents below
Its height entices
the moment fleeting
Perdition waiting
—with gate aglow
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
Stating a positive
about a negative
Knowing nothing
—and sure of the fact
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
Bars of misfortune
singing dark memories
Nightmares once stillborn
—beguiling again
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)