Another Now

Our imagination is in a wild dance with reality

Feral thoughts collide and

populate new territories of the brain

Iodine stains creep across the

stretch of a prostrated mind

Darker tinges leak into one another

Pollute innocence

Create dissonance

I divert the sinister advance with movement

In my body

One foot forward and twist and shake

Rhythm and breath transfer to stillness

Shook silent

Seeking the quiet creases of

this pickled fist of panic

Where all that is good swirls

I pay attention there

Grasping hold of precious fluid

White matter dashes with light

and waits for the dark

Ascending to a higher place

Look outward

Feel this moment

Follow the fissures

to hope
which waits in

Another Now

Walking in the dark

Walking under street lamps

Light to his inner broil

Abscence of work is toil

No direction

He doubts each breath he takes

Shadows shrink and get bent

The dance of discontent

Passion nowhere

City fox strikes a path

In the past friendships led

For the people he bled

No plans for self

Too much on another

Owl, wolf, tree still mortal

Death a one-way portal

His own waiting

Crescent moon rests obscured

His faith on shifting ground

Still located around

Relationships

Like the lamps and the moon

He must find his own light

An inner hunger bright

Yet still borrowed

Who generates passion?

What star shines on and on?

Love when the heat is gone

Live for each other

This heart

Grieving this world in slow motion

The ring pull of my heart pulled back

Contents at risk

of being emptied

Poured out in desperation

Open raw to the wind

This mythic organ swirls and tumbles

Dives between tipping points

Beating in squirming longing

On the axis of a unified vision

Dream scape

I tied myself in knots

Caught in a maelstrom of clumsy thoughts

The headlines of other people’s ideas

merging with the unwieldy grammar of my oscillating beliefs

As sleep comes may I be gentle in my dreams 

Let the lucid self surge in an up swell of consciousness 

step towards gentleness

Take me on a tour of the milk beech wood
Swimming in deep caverns of compassion

until the tranquil dawn

In dream land the unknown shadow will reign 

Bubbling out of the cauldron of a boiling brain

Run riot, play and explore

Unbridled energy

Urgently you call from the loosened bonds of sleep

May this body decipher a lurid pattern of forgiveness 

Comfort and Joy

Let us

Knead love to the edges of our existence

Together become beings stretched

Striving for configurations of unity

A core pulsating to the outer limits

Where nothing rests

The abiding marrow still rich in nutrients

Origin of perpetual life

Love hewn from love then bonded new

Let us

live as though it were true

Rejoice in the luminous now

Rest in a kingdom of the eternal present

Amongst this new spaciousness

Find comfort in that elongated hum