Spaceship

In the midst of that mission
To broadcast the death of cowardice to the masses
You turned to me in that spaceship and laughed
"We should have waited for it to snow."
And I loved you then.
Each one of my particles has come together to love you now. 

I am forever,
Waking up in the mist and the wet,
Feeling my extensions for the first time,
Dreaming you rough and unfeigned.

Oh the paths I have trodden that I may look upon your face.

The Hail in Birmingham

Shivering,
Cackling soul,
All your wisdom is so much,
Carrion for the undiplomatic coma.

What do you care that we went to the moon anyway?

Adam

Unfettered
I could not contain the beauty in all your names
So I spread it out amongst the animals
The flora and the ages in our lives.

Iseult

Don't let's steal away,
The orchards have secrets enough,
And I have yet to make my most indelible mistakes.

Father

Kissing your forehead,
The taste of summer sweat,
Talk of half-birthday presents,

These things comprise the marrow in my bones now.

steal through the night

Look up
Hush, look up
The creases in the years in her
White nightgown, lantern-leader
Softly over the moss.

We cannot stay,
We must pass on,
Talk of utopias will bore.

The burning cities
The phoenix born
What lies behind the eye.

Follow the laughter and the hope on all our lips,
Drink of the dew,
Look up.

Status

If Heaven and Hell both contain,

All the value judgements they purport to,

Then I am content to stay in the dirt,

And the seeds,

And the wind.

Dictionaries Will Only Carry You So Far

My children will understand the term "adult"

To be a big mixed-up combobulation of flashes of glimpses of different selves,

But one that certainly means continuing to be a child.

Set a Goal

I only want,

to understand who you are tonight,

and we each buy our own drinks.

The Retreat

I am your

fair wanderer impressed

upon pages, under wineglasses

Cohesive like the clots

that suffer the winds in your bloodstream.

I hold fast to this earth

I sit scolded at the bottom of the sea.

I had miscalculated, for Rhode was too much for me.

Stories

I will tell stories of you,

To my children, and grandchildren,

Long after you've forgotten.

I will still whisper your name,

Absent-mindedly,

When you have left.

I cannot help but associate you

With all the good that has come my way-

You are an immediate dream,

An endless epic.

Poise

Your growls,

Your purrs,

Your gasps,

Your slurs,

We'll run this life ragged,

You and I.

Love is the sense I have made from a world with you in it.

Primrose Hill

And my hands clenched the big earth,

The sod too full of water, the grass so fresh,

I cried to the first man who passed by,

"I have traveled so far! I have loved so much!

My dear, my heart is yours, yours, yours,

I merely carry it while I live.

To dust we so return,

And if God made us for such a feat,

I will shake his hand and slap his face!

I will love you regardless!"

I was made for me, and I give this to you. Love is what you cannot help but give, as if the whole world was made to push you to do it. As if everything was in place, waiting for you to get here.

Echo-Love calling Banjo-One-Niner. The outer space is cold. Really pretty out here. Makes me think of Reenie. How're Norbert and Fern? You should come see the time shooting out. Man, ain't that something. With open arms. Ciao.

Woods and Ferns

I am slowly disappearing into the golden mist of what I think should be.

Nevada

It's alright,

I see you in everything,

You are every empty mile,

And I have loved you over all of them.

Obsydian

Under cover of night

Panthers and foxes we

Marry and divorce,

Trail off into wisps

Ever to be gathered around the lantern of the nightwatchman

Prepared for Sunday service.

I Cannot Thank You Enough

The ache in my bones,

The future in my eyes,

The pressing forward,

The laughter that makes us shake and shake and shake in the grass.