The vagaries within

truth and falsity …

are greater than

 the differences between them

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Make friends of the deaf

they never hear thy questions

And marry the blind widow

to find thy way

 

Listen to the speechless

their message eternal

The prophets resounding

—thy destiny laid

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Reason

without evidence

Truth

without form

 

Burning

the ladder

Immune

from the scorn

 

Nuance

to sleepwalk

As reality

dreams

 

Proof

in the eye

Galileo

redeemed

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

 

 

Is time but a reference

to prey and confound

 

(while)

 

In memory eternal

—enlightenment found

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

There are strange wanderings

in the souls

of the most common of men

 

Where willpower and intellect

come together

—pointing the way

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

He said what he had to say

to tell the story

He did what he had to do

to rescue time

He paid what he had to pay

to bribe the jailers

He gave what he had to give

—per Gertrude Stein

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Language

is required

to go insane

 

The beasts of

the forest

politely refrain

 

Words

ever forming

into a net

 

Trapping

insanity

—the tighter they get

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

 

The night shift…

working in anonymity

semi-detached

Finding a hidden

emptiness

blinding daylight always hides

Tying up the

looser ends

of conscious dislocation

Bringing you back

inside yourself

through darkness circumscribed

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

The gentlest soul

springs from the hardest heart

—when the fighting is over

 

(Stonehenge: March, 1981)

The world is becoming

impossible to govern

Each person that island

Donne warned us about

 

All sense of belonging

in mirrors bespoken

The strength of shared values

—our vanity flouts

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)