Landscape of fears and sorrows

Nightime

is not a good time

to go wandering around

my head.

Landscape

of fears and sorrows

is probably all I’d find;

I can’t.

Turning

instead to some light

is the advisable thing

to do.

Wait for

a new day to come

while the nighthag nibbles at

my truth.

Finished on 04-12-2006

Flying monkeys around you

Thin tumbling monkeys

jumping, trespassing my

own fence.

Why did you release them once more?

I told you then

not to let them go wild.

Their dextrous hands amaze me,

but take me somewhere

I’d rather not go.

There, you can call

though I’m not sure

if you’ll get any answers.

Ticklish kids,

winking eyes

that don’t know where to look.

And when you notice

they took

your last breath

it will be

too late.

Finished on 09-03-2002

To E.

The world turns,

The word trumps

The motion.

Slowly aware.

Slowly awaits.

The word turns,

The world trumps

The notion.

Big or care,

Bag of flair

Slowly aware.

Finished on 06-07-2010

Predator

Destroy the world.

Go ahead,

don’t sweat.

What difference does it make?

You have your shiny things,

your golden plate,

for your soul

to rest.

I hurt,

I cry,

yet I won’t try

to stay your hand.

01-17-2006

Glowing doubt

There’s just one wine that I can drink,

One flower I can see,

One moment I can keep.

No more than one in search of peace,

One song that makes me want to weep,

One bed in which I want to sleep.

So, guess along

And before some

Take sides from me,

You’ll set me free.

There’s just one voice I want to hear,

One treasure I will long to keep,

One breath that I would love to steal.

Finished on 09-19-2009

The pupil

Looked into my soul

and said

“I want to learn”.

She said

“I want to learn”.

To teach

you need

the drive

the hunger

I have.

The obssession

I have.

The pain.

“I want to learn”

she said.

And learn she did.

About the pain.

The obssession.

The drive.

And then some more.

The rabbit wants to learn

But there’s some danger

In asking the tyger

To be the teacher.

Finished on 01-24-2004

Into Never Never land

She’s gone

but her girl-woman scent

lingers on

on the other side

of my bed.

Her heat

will keep me waiting

for the next time

that we cross

paths.

I think of her smell

and her hair;

of her warmth

and her smile,

while I slip

into never never land.

And she’ll be there

waiting again,

for the touch

and the kiss,

to be mine.

Finished on 05-27-2002

The last laugh

I cry for Peter Pan;

I cry for everyone.

For everyone that wants to fly,

But can’t.

For everyone that longs to hide

From a twisted world.

Never, Neverland is gone.

In puffs of salty smoke.

Peter Pan has gone to play.

And with the Lost Boys

He will stay.

Laugh one last time,

Little boy.

Laugh one last time,

And then go.

Finished on 06-27-2009

Freeflow

Adjacent to your heart

I sit and wait

For my turn.

Finished on 09-19-2009

The girl who was made of money

The girl who was made of money

took to the sky for a drive;

she drank all the water from the clouds

and in the end could not come back.

Finished on 08-19-2005

Delphic

What a weird creature

I am;

crying alone,

fucking around.

Longing for something

I may never have;

dreaming of the future

that was never found.

Finished on 03-26-2006

Haiku #2

Blue fire comes

from deep in your soul;

lights your eyes.

Finished on 03-07-02 

Haiku #1

Innocence

And strength: that’s your lake.

I’m drowning.

Finished on 03-07-02

New Body

There’s always something new

In a new body.

There’s always something new.

To discover.

Finished on 12-04-2007

Final stop

That childish me

Who dreamt of tears,

Of songs,

Of fears,

where has it gone?

Has it just jumped

Into the stream?

Has it let go

Of it’s own dream?

That little me

Who cried alone

Who lost

And won

Where has it gone?

Finished on 09-19-2009

Pagan

Here I wait

In my altar

Look at your sacrifices

Your faces.

Beat the drum

Blow the pipes

Into a rythmic change

Of ages.

I’ll take a man.

Yes I’ll take it

If you bring it.

But what I want

I need I desire

Is a young girl.

Ripe, tasty,

Filled with red blood

And smelling of passion.

Bring her in

Turn her to me

Give her to the God.

Trust I’ll take her,

Ifigenia,

Before I depart.

Finished on 02-05-2004

Why does the Fox chase the Rabbit?

Master of Lies,

King of Untruth,

the Fox told

the Rabbit

the following ruse:

“If you want to run,

if you want to hide,

you’d better run fast,

you’d better hide high.

For I’ll follow close,

and then I’ll catch you;

there’s nothing to stop me

since that’s what I do”.

So the Rabbit started,

started running fast.

As fast as the wind,

as fast as the night.

He didn’t get far.

The Fox soon

caught up

and, with teeth smiling,

“You see? I was right”

he said before biting.

Finished on 12-19-2005

Ode to the measure system

Metrics know nothing

of themselves.

Measure this

or that.

A mile in love.

A gallon in jail.

A pound aborted

last night

somewhere.

People measure,

measure everything.

Miles inches feet;

trust you me

whenever we are one bit short

something else will pop up.

Finished on 02-22-2004

Exposure

Touch me

somewhere

I think

(I think)

I’ve never been touched

before.

I’ll try

not to

twitch so

(much so)

as you don’t want to

hurt.

Finished on 03-30-2006

Equality

Break free

Dance away some pain

Little by little it gets

Lovelier every day.

I trust you will

Get inside of me

To claim

The hunger that devours

The sum of all your

Fears.

Hit me as I hit you,

Punch my nose

or break my heart,

Ring the truth,

Coveted lie,

Smile away

And cry tonight.

Finished on 11-25-2007

Desiring my object

My newly

Activated

Shiny object.

Of lust,

Of greed,

Of doom.

My voice box,

gone forever

Searching for you.

The shoe,

The trust,

The boon.

06-13-2008

A quartet

Illusion of forever

dripping down my chin

after having a good meal

of your pleasure.

Finished on 02-05-2004

The bond

A streak of red,

A red strike

Crisscrossing through

My lover’s back.

The mark that we

Share night and day.

The love that binds

Inside the pain.

Finished on 05-30-2010

The life of a rabbit

Chase something else.

Something that can’t

chase you back.

Eat some vegetables

from my table.

Spurt some juice

when you’re done.

Live your life

down your hole.

Rabbit, I love your

pink flesh.

Every inch and crevice

is a secret place

to play

Hide-and-seek.

Sick of games

your soul ends

up in flames.

Smell your way

into Heaven.

Finished on 07-10-2003

Your lesson

Did we end?

As far as the cry

goes,

I can’t tell

Heads from

Tails.

Type my name

in the computer of your

brain.

Remember then

that you jump

sideways,

and I straight.

Pick your flower,

it will dry

in this untimely hour.

But you’ll ignore

It.

Like everything else

you’ve been told,

and taught.

And learned.

11-05-2003

What you expect

Harvest the pain
we share
whenever I bleed
or you cry for help.

The chance has gone
time ago
to retreat to some place
far off.

Give up your delusions
of eternal something.
You won’t get that
from me.
And the longer you try
the more I’ll make you
cry.

Finished on 07-10-2002

Two worlds

Two hands

in front of my face

touching you,

your innermost

World.

Your pear-shaped world.

Two eyes

to look straight on

through your

ribcage and flaunt

what’s found.

Your apple-shaped world.

Finished on 05-12-2003