the mystery & allure of random intersecting lives.  where do they come from - where are they going.  always in motion. each a tree rooted in the fertile soil of the spirit spreading outwards and up.  the young Southasian woman swimming in the lane beside mine.  delicate cocoa skin, coarse black hair spilling out of her swim cap in rebellious ( Read more... )

open
attending the
spirit all channels on
breathing the moment to sweet life
rebirth

delicate gesture
hesitant perch
simple offerings
discrete ornate
collecting briefly
mapping pale trajectories
with dancing slipper grace
hovering thoughts
ghost memorials that linger
flicker and fade
life is motion

Tingling nerves crash heaven ( Read more... )

a meeting place for amorous adolescents - families with young children cavorting on art that you can actually touch and clamber on top of - state workers catching lunch - schoolgirls in black skirts on a school outing playing hopscotch in the sun.  it is a mountainous barrier between lower Albany, NY and upper Albany with its skyscrapers projecting ( Read more... )

eyes asphyxiate
pattern-stitched center
tattered wings

bruising petals
blossom-startled sunset
crimsoned tangerine

hot delight beneath
winter's descending blanket
citrus sweet pleasure

each silky chapter
stacking tender world wonder
daring deliberate

the world says no
and I say yes to the moment
burning the days