Impossibly wedged

Seeds thrust their green from grinding slabs

In ungenerous dust

Voracious clouds descend

Mandibles tear away photosynthesis

Common tempests expose tender roots

White-heat from a single eye withers

Yet we wonder that such genesis

Might not spring joyously up

Extending every fiber towards the yearning love

That should nurture it completely

Cursing the lazy neglect of the windblown shingle

And that the sun’s mirror mask is not dutifully worn

Darwin’s judgment is ever on our lips

Inscribing an elliptical curse of misinterpretation

(9/10/14)

Singularity

Leaf on the Wind

The Iron Surfer

Find that place

That center

Unsoiled by the day

The unsolicited violence

Of being so obviously different

In the quietest way

Go there

Shut the door

Listen to your heartbeat

Trace safety with your finger

Ward off what smells your blood

And catch your breath.

Neither dark nor light

Has a place there.

(1/15/14)