8/30/76

Morning glory
Tell your story
Tangle 'round entwine
Lift your face to sun and rain
Your simple message
Is your name

8/30/76    

Star carpet
Nighttime shawl
So completely cover
Envelop every all

10/19/76   

Life I don't know
I never took any notes
I don't like know-it-alls
And I don't tolerate amateurs

If I must learn
I'll do it all myself
I shall not trust you
To do my breathing for me

You might forget

11/5/76     

Wind
Slip
Sweep
Slip around the world
Around the sweet short world
Of my consciousness slip
Slip around me
From where I can not see sweep
Swirl
Sweep clear
From way around move clear
Clean
Clear
Slip
With only a primal whisper spin
Wind

11/24/76   

Tall pines wall out
Shield spires
Shade
My tired eyes
From sun cold rays
Huffin' n' puffin' n'
Scorching blind

Fuse needles wall out
This bright blight slanting
Landing glint low
To keep night spaces
Trees

twelve ten

12/28/76   

Calmly sitting waiting
Knowing calmly
Calm will come
Soon calm will overspread
This fearful calm
Shortly
Nearly
Close at hand
Hold on

Rubaiyat

2/10/77   

Stars in the night
Moon in the night
Sky is a bowl
So Omar says

Breeze is the air
Nobody there
I am somebody
The night is in me

cold

2/14/77 

The road is a burning serpent
In the mornings fiery glare
Dancein' n' dazzling in
Mirage vapors
Cold all cold
To my mind
Cold to my mind

Orange fire
Rising to yellow
White heat scorched
Sighted purple blinded
Cold all cold
To my mind
Cold to my mind 

4/7/77

Nothing
Touches me deeply
Now
Everything
Is a teardrop
On my belly
You
Are a salty
Stain
Then a memory
Nothing
Touches

4/13/77   

It's like summer
And I'm writing
It's like summer
And I'm writing
Glory to something
Glory to something
It's like summer
And I'm writing
Glory to something

Poem for Anne

5/4/78

Life is short
We go nowhere
This love we crave
Is all there is -

Lovelessly

5/28/78

Formless -
shapeless as a jellyfish

Tasteless -
bland as water
colorless as blank paper

Nameless -
mindless as murder

Empty -
like the hours
the prisons -

Faceless -
endless as the future

Useless-
pointless as a mutant
senseless as blame
blameless as an infant

Empty-
like the bed
the coffin -

Death in the Morning

5/28/78

Drink the gray dirt
Tenderly in shoots and closure
Tied in the splendor of yellow mornings
Blue with cool dew and empty
Starlessness
Like eyes timelessly gazing, singing
At the morning
Bright with release forever -
Free from this specific pain -

Clattering

8/27/78

Clattering
The days go by us
Tottering
Like domino rows -
We are conceived -
The first falls -

Of You

9/3/78

I study you:
Try to absorb your essence -
Memorize your nuance -
Your gestures -
The tiny curved postures
That revolve around your fingertips -
The textures -
The scents of you -
I hear your breath -
Strain to sense the air
You have warmed -
Listen to your voice:
The razor sibilants
The broader rounder vowels
The sultry sonority of your whispers-

Do you notice?
I try not to be obvious
I fail -

November Sketch

10/11/78

The stars are gone now
All on into gray shrouds
Crawling the crags of autumnal ices
Across the Godless celestial voids
Leaving the living
Brittle
Unsure in the long shadowed narrowness
Of November -

Susan's' Song

10/11/78

Fair Finn and Indian princess
From a long lost land of laughter
She smiled the whitest winter winds
Her eyes the bluest day

Her hair I touched in autumn
Now her chill remains upon me
Delusion makes a man a fool
A woman makes him pay

Priests

11/18/78

You said I was beautiful
I was so hungry for your words
My name was a whisper
Barely a sigh
I buried myself
In your eyes without dimension
Into a film of wine
Down -

You turn
A colder chord
A silence -

I forget what to do
I am swallowed by my hands
My burning -
The day is a razor with no death
No ending -

Vows
Crack like frozen pavement
Truths and distances belie lovers
Lose their own blessings
Even the priests now
lose faith -