How Alice Made It Through the Looking Glass and Back

Come inside, the shining said
And we will have thoughts and thought and thoughts
And then we will think no more

We will be pirates of flesh,
sailors beyond mind.
inside the old, antiphonal chant
“Now, more”
In and out

In touch with earth
And a part of “yes”

Primal Scream

When you jump on a contrampoline …
Well, … you know.
One good bounce and your head hits the sky
And then you land duckside down
And roll on the ground laughing like a moaniac.

I saw you that time:
Your face afire,
So bright that you couldn’t put it out with a ladder
And then we laughed until a year was forgotten

And here we are again
Ready to bounce
Ready to roar
Ready to burn.

Revelations

To know the mind is a wonderful thing;

Not to know it,

Better yet,

As we slide down slick hot nights

past the supping of fireflies, periwinkles and frog dust.

Oh, ravenous joy

that has devoured the arc of sky

on this note we are risen

on this night we are born.

As the vapor seeps from the fields,

the hills are in our bones

and we are delivered with cricket voices.

"Pay attention, I asked you a question!"
"No, you asked me a song."