Monday, August 15, 2011

A Prayer for Deliverance


Oh money
That takes away the cares of the world
That dries the tear from the eye of the banker
And dresses fat Mendham in ample obscurity
and all is trim white and polite lawns
and all our woes
are driven away in Audis.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Words


If no one reads these words …
What then?
Do they fall like some primeval forest
resounding only in dinosaur ears, unheard
unknown, undescribed.

When the world has lost its need for me
Where do they live?
On other lips, in other ears
echoing,
misremembered,
uncomprehended
and incomprehensible?

  
Or do they ring
in a memory
in a dream
in the great tomorrow
of forever?

Friday, June 10, 2011

There is only a tree,

There is only a tree,
Only a stone,
Only a river,
Only a place,
Where things are
And have been
And will be.
Until we fit studied disconcentration
Onto these non dead bodies.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Undifferentiated Aliens Descend

Undifferentiated aliens descend
the stairs violins blaring
until a red light forms in the west
and night pushes the hills down

Nothingness is welcomed
with too many songs to sing
and warm eyes.
All this, for a flower