Tuesday, January 24, 2006

tanglingly

green comes sky-brawt
underlinings of dealts
the brawt thawt that dwells
suddenly in the consciousness
unconsciously and conscienceless
- just there suddenly -
a silhouette on which you
woodn't bet much such
that a roarschark comes
to mind more orangely
with impulses streaming out
tangling and un-

Monday, January 16, 2006

a second poem for Danny

I send you dollops of daffidildoes, and laffter before and after



I send great lakes of tears with great skies of ever-expanding space thru which there is no trace of you



You trace the lines in my face, my youth and yours before you offed to war, and were offed.



Before daylite came creeping thru the jungle, they said, you were knifed and bled



Knifed and bleeding, I remember hearing years later that you were gathered to the bosom of Abraham



Gathering shreds and shards of remembrance, I cut my finger, yet let it bleed freely. Who the deed?

Saturday, January 14, 2006

a poem for you Danny

a poem for you Danny

so long gone

Nam Nam damn Vietnam

not much of you came back

just these lingering memories

that come in the day and come in the nite

welcomed, unbidden, forfended

the trick doesn't always work

remember that time?

along Old Orchard Road

Bone Orchard? cemetarily asking

no bone orchard you that nite

living boner, asking Dya moan for the bone?"

implishly

completely contradicting

the taciturn structure of your face


I quickly take a cold, wetted and wrung,

coldwetwashcloth to my face

and struggling to

control again


the steering wheel of my thawts,

I reorient them again

to the pleasures and pain

of the task at hand ....

Sunday, January 08, 2006

a jot of rhymes

New year
new cheer
new fear
new jeer
new sneer
new queer
new tear
new weird
new word
new world
new whirl'd
now sqwirl'd
in the swirld
more war
as before
unfolding 2006
anno Domini