Hypnosis

ear drums drumming memory
reverberating
drums drumming memory
shadows
drumming memory
echoing
memory

sleep

wake to dreams of leaves
adorning sidewalks
long walks home
the child perched beneath rainbows
your mother's eyes smiling
empty playgrounds at dusk
the first touch of fresh snow
sliding banisters
running bases
childhood
endless
peace

sleep

Trust Peace

Trust
(my velvet daughter’s smile, like a vast translucent dream,
her open hand and brilliant laugh, her wild flower embrace)
peace.

A moment arrives

A moment arrives
from nowhere
(now here)
and finds itself confronted by choice.
Not as in diverging paths, but versions of truth.

An icicle drips from the awning, and with each measured falling,
a new moment arrives
from nowhere
(now here)
again confronted by choice, or versions of truth.

A wildflower blooms, and with each new plume,
a new moment arrives
from nowhere
(now here).

The spiral continues until you confront
the moment that arrives
from nowhere
(now here)
and choose your version of truth.

Firefly Elixir

We smear drunk rose delicious dreams,
and whisper sweet urges,
like light on sand at dusk.
We beg for morsels
(to taste, save, and savor)
from the memory making machine; summer.

Lullabye

In a moon soaked rocking chair moment

you touched my face and whispered.

Your curly tendrils of golden strawberry

wound down the side of your face

like so many sunset streams

of my Southern Ohio

foot hill memory.

In that instance of breath and smile,

I felt electric and sang you to sleep.

solar desire

craving the gravity of your touch
i construct imaginary labyrinths
to find myself lost in
the endless details of the impossible you