Arcane Circadian
The night sky, it seems so bare, but in truth all the stars are there. We’ve expanded the vacuum with our incandescent light, we kidnapped the nature of the night. Oh the nature of night was kidnapped by our light. We kidnapped the nature of the night. We should know better than we think, but […]
Dolbear’s Law
In the thicket past the luscious bushes, can you hear the cricket’s music? Tell me the temperature, by degrees… based on how the cricket sings. We traversed ivy and kudzu vines, and from time to time, we were hypnotized, by the flickering flashing of fireflies passing, dashing and passing and dashing on by. Sashaying and […]
Horse
They plowed our fields they built our cities they helped us bury our dead. We are in debt to our equine friends those odd-toed ungulates. You’ve gone as far as to war, with us, horse. You shall not worry, anymore, horse. For as long as you are able to ride, you’ll remain safe and secure […]
Persephone
Persephone, don’t you eat that pomegranate seed, or even that of the simple persimmon. Persephone, now just wait a minute. For you might fall into surrender and fold into submission. Though you’re getting Stockholm Syndrome you’ll forever be in the prison of the Underworld of Hades, a thought that you do hate. For your poor […]
Pluto
Pluto was a planet before the year two thousand, and then the Y2K came and took away his fame, what a terrible shame! And he was disinvited form the universe. But what came first? The knowledge of his existence, or his persistence to circle ’round the sun? Now a moment of silence, for our disenchanted […]
Heavier-than-air
Strong endeavors with the weather Tether me to a thousand balloons so I can fly. To work up the nerve to desert my inertia, to churn up a force that’ll harness not hurt ya, I need the mind of an engineer, I need the mind of an engineer. Otto Lilienthal, his artificial hills, were conical, […]
Before You Leave
Before you leave, let’s make the sound of the best constellation in the sky. It’ll be a celebration for denouncing the hesitation which has served as a foundation for most of your life. Before you leave, could you give me the new directions, please? Or provide me with an intersection, at the very little, at […]
Neskowin
North, south, east, west… north, south, east, west… north, south, east, west… north, south, east, west… And I wrote a song about the rhododendron growing by the river. And did you know that the rhododendron resembles the mountain laurel? And when the two get together, they create a trifecta with the dog hobble? And for […]
Even Magic Falters
Sea salts and kundalini hope it’ll help me with my breathing. Did you know that Harry Houdini died in his sleep from internal bleeding? Well, the Master of Escape could not foresee his very last day due to his own delay he met his doom to our dismay. Merlin, from Arthurian legend told by the […]
Your Bower
You lure me into your bower yet I notice you cower as my eyes do devour all your hard-working hours. Twigs bent like arcs and vectors natural architecture. Conscientious collector, I’ll be your inspector. Wistful for my affection, whistling with pure intention. Triplets in your inflection, I listen, as you sing, as you sing, as […]
Kapunkah
Eating mangoes by the mangroves we dipped our toes into the Andaman sea. There was so much for both of us to see but we were rendered lazy by the heat. Like a water buffalo lying in a puddle of repose.Onward to our bungalows we noticed that below our bed there was a black and […]
Ocean
Sailors at bay in the harbor today, but later we’ll trek deeper waters. To pause is such grace, but our anchors will raise, and the currents will tug us out farther. But if I were a river, if I were a lake, if I were a pond, well, perhaps I would make a habitat that […]
Calm Canary of the Arctic Sea
A celebration! For a cetacean Calm canary of the Arctic Sea has learnt to speak, through imitation! Let us rejoice, a sentient thing has mimicked the voice of a human being. Calm canary of the Arctic Sea front and center of a media frenzy. The age-old question that leaves us restless and constantly, and constantly, […]
Fourth Son
Cardinals in the garden startled when I spotted them nestling with the starlings, those speckled, restless darlings. Old world seed-eating songbird. Are you somber in slumber? Are you stronger in numbers? Are you starving with hunger? The tanagers are managing to prove themselves as scavengers but the old oak tree. They’re opening up all of […]
Alexander
Standing on a jetty admiring waves and eddies that’s when I lost track of Alexander. Well it always seemed to be that he was on an Odyssey, full of curiosity how that child would meander. I tried to keep a watchful eye but he would always stray. I should of been more diligent more vigilant […]
Will-o-the-Wisp
Mysterious will-o-the-wisp, ethereal spirit appearing. What possible sense could be made of this figure in the clearing? Past the wisteria, and the hyacinth, I saw the phenomenon of the will-o-the-wisp. In the mire growing tired and getting lost. My feet trip over the peat, and I slip by the creek on rocks covered in moss. […]
Legend of the Neighborhood
He was a legend of the neighborhood always walking his black dog around, and when I’d see him with his headphones on I’d call out “Aaron Brown! Aaron Brown, what’s going down?” Oh that boy be a walking but he’d stop and start talking to anyone who came around. In his camo jacket his music […]
Paint-chipped Windowsill
I sat by the paint-chipped windowsill silently watching winter slowly spill. Dispersing, worsening washed out by whiteness and wind. Having just woken up I wondered when did it begin? Why am I inside locked away and warm? Where do deer and mourning doves go to weather off the storm? Where do squirrels go to bury […]
Zoysia Grass
Zoysia grass and a summer breeze, the choice at last to do just as we please. The juxtaposition of Jupiter and Venus in the west, a sight to see, I believe, it takes away my breath. Sipping on hibiscus, underneath a waning gibbous, waxing poetic about existence, oh it’s riveting. And that reminded me of […]
An Eagle
…remember that time when you tried to explain the word sublime to me? But you got all caught up in the terminology of chemistry, fumbling around as you tried to speak. Figuring out how a solid turns into a gas, while totally bypassing a liquid state, just like to today when I went to the […]
Open a Window
Before the internet lived in my pocket Before we all had avatars There was an art to telling the time we’d devise patterns and we would scheme rhymes to remind ourselves and guide ourselves through life. But now the internet took me as a hostage, I find myself often lost and exhausted. Jumping through windows […]
Hunt & Gather
We used to hunt and gather now there’s a factory for just about practically anything you can imagine. We used to hunt and gather now there’s a factory for just about practically anything you can imagine. Are you overdoing it with your labor when they’re paying you mere wages, but I wager that you crave […]
Studying Metamorphosis
Studying metamorphosis in a foreign language. Struggling for the words to stick. They are pouring in, but will I manage to retain them? Something ancient and latent is aching to escape… and I cannot contain it, I cannot contain it. Studying metamorphosis without assistance or a syllabus. Juggling with boulders in my fist. I feel […]
Modus Operandi
First there was dirt and then there was gravel, now there is asphalt, when will it halt? I want to feel the earth as I travel, so may I ask, who is at fault? They were afraid that the path would erode so they began to pave, and ended up… creating a road. And I […]
10,972 Meters
“Ah, well a day, what evil looks had I from old to young. Instead of the cross, the albatross, around my neck is hung” I used to marvel at planes as they passed overhead Big-bellied baleen-shaped dreams a balanced mesh of mechanics and of mystery. It took me two decades to take flight… but now […]
Hold the Space
“Water water everywhere, although the lake did shrink. Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink” Meet me by the lake, we need to pray. Meet me by the lake, we need to pray. Have we past the point of mitigating the effects? The pipeline it is growing close, so someone’s got to be […]
Sassafras Passage
I went to the river to retrieve this song by the white water rapids along the Sassafras Passage
Slow Burning Journey
Slow-burning journey, no need to hurry. I acknowledge process, I trust in the abundance. Slow-burning journey, no need to hurry. I acknowledge process, I trust in the abundance. There’s hundreds of years of wondrous things that are waiting to be uncovered, and maybe one of them might have an answer. If we just adjust our […]
Lined with Feathers
Lined with feathers and bound together with thyme. Little swallow nest, how did you survive the test of this weather? What a delicate find. First thunderstorm of the season and the forest receives a diluvial feast. Rejuvenated and appeased.
Citronella Ritual
Our Citronella ritual was far-fetched from habitual on the bridge and over the river. We’d dab a little on our wrists then grab each other for a kiss to celebrate our mutual existence. But since the winter’s fully passed we can return to the warm forest floor at last. It’s waiting there for us. It’s […]
Grayson Highlands
I must be patient until I reach the Grayson Highlands adjacent to the Appalachian Trail. And as I’m climbing up that peak I will be smiling, just to see the landscape at a different kind of scale. I’m searching for some clarity it’s a rarity these days. But when I’m in nature things become so […]
Out of Season
The robins are flying over the Lyons who quietly lie in eternal repose. And a little lamb is folded over a stone just like a sphinx, it’s quick to throw a riddle, though it never even blinks. And a daffodil and a crocus are opening before us, enchanted by the opus of a murmuration’s chorus. […]
Mums & Marigolds
Mums and marigolds and plums in wooden cherry bowls and the intertidal periwinkles among the rocks when the water’s low all serve as variables through fables, but not parables. How they coincide is seasonal, strung in the locks of the ebb and flow. Everything is impermanent and connected, everything is impermanent and connected, everything is […]
Cypress
Cypress, I spied you siphoning water from the creek. First things first, I can decipher your thirst. I find it quite disconcerting how you and the others are hurting. This land is terse but I will plan to be your nurse. The summer, it is stifling And the only kind of lightning that is striking […]
Of the Lake & Land
Our roses had june bugs and Japanese beetles eating at the petals as we’re nibbled by mosquitoes. Our roses needed water, hold the nozzle count to thirty, and after a while, they shall not be so thirsty. And with the garden hose, make home-grown rainbows, hold it up to sunlight and look for the red, […]