UNIVERSATA

I.
butterflies are formed from our thoughts
of white the most purity wrought
of brightest colour our imagination brought
in iridescence illumination sought

the woods are holy to our brow
the leaves cascade upon the bough
with winds that play upon the now
sustain the spirits with sacred vow

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6/2-10/2011 Loro Ciuffenna and Proceno, Italy

LAW OF GRAVITY

the logic of feeling
flows

finds the most efficient
path to the sea

imagines the contour
of the landscape

and goes there
following intuition

racing down inclinations
slowing on open plains

spreading with pleasure
pooling with patience

into deep hollows
then filled, proceeds forward

becoming rivulets streams and rivers
becoming what it has to be

what it is
beyonding all boundaries

respecting the lay of the land
and the law of gravity

finds its own
truth.

2/26/2012 Wytheville, Virginia

UNCERTAIN GRACE

her white bare arm
twitched at the elbow, plump
hanging out the rolled down window
on the driver's side of the truck

her tuft of black hair
cut short and untamed
contrasted with the unseen
side of her face

what farm house did she come from
borne with all the anxiieties of a young girl
with the added isolation of surrounding fields
distant with dreams that lay flat with space

and at night in her room,
covered with blankets of stars up to her chin
with rising moon largest until 2022,
what sensations abound to grasp an uncertain grace.


5/12/12

BIPEDAL

standing in the grassful breeze
I know the reality of things unseen
I realize that the experience in green
is both personal and full of grace

as we became bipedal across the  plain
our hands were free to hold the african sun,
as we envisioned the possibility in stone
we engaged the idea of transmigration through the rain

with words, the invention of language
the creation of symbols to carry in place
as icons in the mind to face
like fish found bounding in a lake

compassion fuels the steps we take
on the path towards humanity's shore
and beyond the imagination our geographies soar
where rivers to our first footprints and perceptions pour.

PERSISTENT VOICE

a progression of chords, a syncopated beat
a blue overtone, a heart bending heat
the dangling of a phrase, the backbeat emphasized
the lifting of a tempo, the directness realized

the lilting of a lyric, the pause as if a breath
the deftness of the fingers, the cause of life and death
the elaboration of a melody, the refiguring a tune
the approximation of a note, the improvisation of the moon

the concentration of a thought, the furling of a brow
the epicentre of emotion, the moment in the now
the dance of rhythm, the flow of musicality
the sweep of sky expressed with singular vitality

the wind receives expression with a solitary tree
that bent to form its arms the leaves reach ever free
and with the stars and sun to guide the player's choice
releases fingertips abound with its persistent voice.


9/21/12
3:33 a.m.