Burial Day

Bright chill
coiling clouds
roiling coarse space
welling
heaving seas,

while naked
free
from death’s
empty pledge,
at last
I leap
into the lucid
air

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Daybreak

daybreak, still limbs lace
to gray sky, wait for the next
storm to shake open

morning, still sleeping
shuttered windows conceal the
cold face of daybreak.

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Life

You breathe, and my lungs
rise and fall like winter trees
swaying, sure of spring,

like water-drops, cells
twisting, galaxies pulsing
with abundant life.

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Storm Near Travis

Clouds
glow in
garish light.

Bombers
in the mist
rise
and fade

as ponderous rain
falls
glistening
to the ground

and leaves
lunge
to winter gardens
flung.

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Green Hills

Green hills,
embroidered
mist, rich
rising ridge
fog filled
plunging fields
cattle,
black, weightless
rise poised
from bare bank
grazing
the grass of
heaven

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Rockville Road

soft sweep
of gentle hills
fallow fields
famished
for black seed
worked earth
glistening
in late rain
listening
to songs of
spring
as every
narrow
furrow
waits

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Our Love

Lightning
flashing in your eyes,
wind in your hair, gleaming
moon streaming
passion.

It remains
deep in my heart;
unquenched desire,
our love's constant fire.

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Brittle Night

Brittle night pulls breath
from tender lungs, drifting lives
rise to star-bright sky.

Approach with care! By
thin nets ensnared, love will
cut to glassy tears.

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Binary

Darkness and light
day and night
voices soar
then fall.

A child falls
and, laughing, rises to
his mother’s arms.

Rivers of youth
cut canyons
from ancient
bones.

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Rough Weather

Cumulonimbus
pressing in from the sea
squall-line, supercell, windsheer,
violent, ragged fingers
reach down, ready to pull
the trigger
and end our
green world.

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