On the eve of your graduation
We sat mirroring each other
Each lost
Each found
...
Oh, New spring
Solid rivers have sprung
Melted out of madness
...
I look at you
With your petunia eyes
And candy ribbon mouth
A smile like the first snow
...
When they asked me to come here
I should have said no
Shut up in a room too small
...
They were all covered in it
thick and clingy,
cloying wax
white cream laced and tilled
...
The darkness that spreads along the line
To divide the foamy white sea of light
Dive, dive back into the black
Your foul deeds of crushing bone and blood
...
The night sighs
while I say my prayers
stacking them as cord wood
to burn on the altar of God
...
I want to feel exceptionally strong
So I'll expose the paper dolls
And massage the cloudy chaos
...
A shudder on a winter's day
Where the ice sticks in keyholes
and the sky dreams in blue
...
Life's bits and pieces have floated downstream
Now begins renewal
The reuptake of nutrients and minerals
...
The sun in the sky
Tells him he still has time
He closes his eyes
Immersing in Adam's first dawn
...
Catch me upward like a leaf on the wind
Love comes this way so very rare
Sweep me up in your palm and gently
Set me down in your lap
...
I dreamt last night
Arms open heart vaulting
I was the wind and you were the sea strong
I crawled across your openness
...
Marvelous, what a word,
A marvelous word
Marvelous should be my name
With a name like that
...
I came to capture the moment
When glass fractured
at the instant of the stones impact
When the first snowflake touched your tongue
...
I Am My Father's Son And Daughter
On the eve of your graduation
We sat mirroring each other
Each lost
Each found
Sitting on cold steel warmed by hearts
A tailgate of remembrance
At dawns edge I dreamed a dream
Of before the great birth
A son who shone a sun
A woven life
As me but not
Of me but not
You were across the room
At times I shouted to deaf ears
Other times it was you shouting
But always love waved
Always love thirsted
And always together we drank
Tonight we drink again
And tip cans ice cold to our lips
The lips that whispered
That yelled, shouted, laughed and
Fed off the fever that we had become
Through the crucible
That gave me to you and you to me
Tomorrow one journey ends
Another begins
Long ago and far away
A man loved a woman
A woman loved a man
Come run away with me
Today, forever and always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be
I awaken, a witness to a dream
That has become real.