MEMORY (SET)

If you heard it just once

You would give up all that you are

For one night, for one set of this

Memory riddle if you please

If you saw it, glanced at it

It would take you and squeeze all there ever was

Within you and beyond your draw of comprehension

If you understood it

It would betray your usual sense of self

The oddity in all you seen with your pretty brown eyes

Tonight as if any other is going to arrive

It shall confess into the crowds

What is glaringly crystal and smoky and ever more to you and all present

If you offered it a day and grew with it

It would ride you like a hurricane

If you felt it a pinch longer, the longest 15 minutes known to man

It would punch you to your knees & happily you’d kneel

As if receiving knight's honor and grade
This set of pulses will alter tomorrow, today.

3.26.12 

Blood-Line

Children of men we are

Water brothers by time

I could not tell whether it was just yesterday

When we learned our first knot

Push and pull, see and halt right there

What is a bloodline?

It snakes through many mountains

Reaches the sea, holds in a barrel

Steams a shirt and makes a cup of tea

For every moment we laughed, shared and sailed

I thank you and hold you against the sun

In each drip I know you are there,

In all that was, is and will be, a part of you exists

Life is but a moment we get to live,

I stand tall; I knee to the cold ground and fold a flag.

You taught me how

From across the state line, I am there

Man of honor, heavens wait

Our last hoorah hasn’t rung

The silk in the bloodline is now and always

Below a vessel, underneath my eyes
Life is but a moment that I saw through your mind.

12-27-11

For Eda, when his friend passed.

Tremor (Subway poetry)

In a moment in which I can count to five
I saw your eyes flicker they minced me into a tree trunk
Stepping down from a height now only known
As cloud nine and so it is
Feet on the ground, again
I remember the next day, morning after
The tremor that ran through me
Like a knife through water
I move into the next eve
Knowing it’s full of heart.

11-30-2011