by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Uphill we walkwatched by the birdswho don’t name uslumbering through mudsnapping twigsan awkward species we’re watched by time that doesn’t tell usdoesn’t changewe are the hands on the dialwe are escaping sandand alarms at dawn we’re watched by the murdered eyes of...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Looking into the deep history of your eyesThe crusade pursuing you through the record storeThe renaissance stroll through Elysian ParkThe invasion of BostonI see a history an evolution an epoch journeyThat has brought us hereTo live another age of...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Beauty creates herselfespecially without audienceleaving those who throng to see herthe victims of a cancelled performance beauty dances easilyeven in agonyeven in joy she shares herselfyet excludes herself she is bold in the worldbut more bold outside of the world...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
The selfthreshold to other selves without doorsky-ceiling root historieswinding up from soil toward the lightthe source when he came beforehe walked upon the rocksupon the stones of mountains now he is lost in high grassin deep soft layers of leafboneand...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
She travels in disguiseas avalanche stoneas cometand has gotten the fish to swearshe is one of them. it is not a question of shifting shapebut of living geometryof knowing that the shortest distancebetween pointsis homeand that circles become eyeswhen flooded with...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
They circulate with the bloodHis wordsThey throb with the heartHis words His wordsLand on the pageLike desperate flocksDriven downIn mid-migration.
