They say to forgive and forget…

in spite of the damage they’ve done

 

A blessing sublime, someone better than I,

could do both—I though neither one

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

The world is an oven

we live in

 

With each scorching,

its temperature grows

 

Unable to stop,

hands fall off the clock

 

Left roasting

—goose cooking below

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

Is science the killer

of intuition

 

Can feelings so easily

be dispelled

 

The numbers unchained,

math murder proclaimed

 

Our souls and our spirits

—to quell

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

Academic Immune Deficiency,

the intellect under attack

 

Those powered to know, ivory towers enthroned,

dialectic—its meaning hijacked

 

(Bryn Mawr College: January, 2020)

Humanities coin two sided,

on the front eternal life

 

On the back annihilation

—on its edge we balance fright

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

How many Poems must I write,

to set my spirit free

 

How many sunsets must I watch,

to win my souls reprieve

 

How many women must I love,

to make Delilah cry

 

How many visions must I chase

—to catch the last goodbye

 

(Villanova University: January, 2020)

Writing not for current ears,

writing for a thousand years

 

Writing not for time undone,

writing for the zero-sum

 

Writing not for love or hate,

writing not to legislate

 

Writing neither first nor last,

writing for the future-past

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

The tyranny of inspiration

—a whip cracking within

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

The jet fuel of perception

 is fear

 

The reasoning behind logic

is doubt

 

The heartbeat of affection

is love

 

Their connection inherent

—marriage devout

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

(short version)

 

Science wants to father

—what nature mothers best

 

 

(long version)

 

Atoms in the void,

voices in the wind

 

Long to be connected,

where do we begin

 

Science wants to father,

what nature mothers best

 

A baby born beyond their reach

—the Muse to then contest

 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: January, 2020)