All the young Jews,

all the young Christians,

all the young Muslims,

debt to confuse

 

Abraham crying,

prophesy fading,

hellish debentures

—Heaven to lose

 

(The New Room: July, 2021)

Jello mold converts…

frozen believers

 

Trapped in plain sight,

their freedom to lose

 

Set in the form,

immobile and suspect

 

Hope locked in stillness

—unable to move

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Doing more with less,

I cut out the middle

Doing more with less,

all life from within

Doing more with less,

I qualified nothing

Doing more with less

—Nirvana begins

 

(The New Room: July, 2021)

Contagion of anxiety, 

a blanketing wind

Deafening all

with the force of its emptiness

Reclaiming the silence

—in betrayals of fear

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Blanketing the curse

of separation

 

Distance covers memory

—to sleep inside the pain

 

(Dramsleep: July, 2021)

Spacetime but emergent,

the string on nature’s kite

 

Reeling in a looming giant

—beyond both day and night

 

(Amtrak R5: July, 2021)

The end, the beginning,

nearer than far

 

The middle a wasteland

—to banish and tar

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

His shadow moved like smoke,

released from the fire

 

Fading in the night air

—never to return

 

(Searching For Crazy Horse II:  July, 2021)

Proof in the abstract

as far as it goes

Ninety-nine cents to the dollar,

the penny to know

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)