It’s a sky-blue sky
The satellites are out tonight”

-Laurie Anderson, From “Let X =X”"

“Nothing/ Is outside of us in this overinterpretted world..
..I test the thickness of the universe, it’s resilience
to carry us further than any of us wish to go.
We shed our shapes slowly like moving water,
which ends up as it will so utterly far from home.”

-Jim Harrison, From “Cabbage”

Wedding Dance

W E D D I N G D A N C E
(For Connor & Yunet)

In a clutch
So strong
It wouldn't be wrong
In a gypsy love song.

In a new whirl,
Matching steps on
To a new turn,
Outwards, yet no words will
Work, to fill
Between
One.

I'm Pushing Buttons

.
“..In the stillness that surrounds us
we think we have to probe our wounds,
but with what? Mind caresses mind
not by saying no or yes but neither.”

Jim Harrison, from “Night Dharma”


There was a day
when I was fueled enough to fly,
full enough to go a ways,
fogged in enough not to try.

Not in a good way
I was still (I am still)
I had it happen
I watched it spill

There is today.
I’m somewhat in on it.
I hold my hands out open (at least)
wide out all night and day.
I’m pushing buttons with my wait.
But I don’t hesitate to give myself away.