Moondragons 0

i thought i caught
a snapshot of the rabbit

in the moon.
it said to me:

' there's a tiny
line slicing fantasy

and art and art
better make that cut

or it's only
living in fantasy.'

rabbits have keen ears!

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Shape Of Wings To Come

trapezoid: discoid

last metaphor
before

spiralling
into free fall,

anti-gravity
lifting sanity

to higher power
of cosmic order-

not one selfish gene
in whole social brain!

***special post: 'grain' apr 1

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In The Beginning Was The Ground

we are what we behold blake said;
and drink, breathe and eat too.
that is

until we stop breathing.
then

being one with perceived
floating
in plenum of space

we're simply
put back to beginning

of blake's meaning.

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Tao's A Verb

eastern sages say

good evil
pleasure pain

all extremes
experience same,

implying thereby

balance is better
than wherever

we happen to be
right now.

a reason
i suppose

one sometimes spots

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Blue Moon!

o! blue moon!
glass bubble

in hubble*
space blown

by big technology
on a very

very big scale,
so

next glance you glass
at that dragon scarred

scythe-
remember-

it's no rock
just a clock!

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Penny Stock

i'm an industry
declaring dividends on adrenalin

and issue
this corporate report.

the initial outlay
of capital

coupled with investment
in advertisement

force me
to declare myself in bankruptcy

and victim
of felonious assault.

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Where's Enoch?

astronomers
search the stars!

you'll not find
even one sight

similar in one
infinitesimal dot

to sights
enoch saw

and scribed
in a book*

he read
to his sons.

where is this place?

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Kill Shot

i'm accelerating particle personalities.
i want to know what happens

when they collide.
i want to create

new character
in never

before known
blast of wonder

mushrooming

sudden gamma
death brighter

than solar flare
felt bare-eyed

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The Ibis Lives In Tragedy

Job 38: 36

the ibis
lives in tragedy

but trickster
spider knows

all along
what rooster's saying.

tails or heads?
call it!

ooooopppppsssss!
you lose.

guess you're extinct ibis

*Posting 'shape of wings to come' mar.25

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Shiva's Toe Up Your Nose

old Leo! old Sphinx!

still standing
cubic solid
crouched

over orbits of bull, ram, fish-
endless as unbroken circle-

waterbearer now points way
and, balances so tipped,

inspiration leads perception,

steering process forward
with mathematically precise art

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