Where the Wild Light Waits

Beyond the fresh grass

Of spring

And the decay of winter

The blue of spring

And summer

Awaits the

Moment

Beyond the trees

And in the thick of the rough

The wild light waits

To bring the fervor of

Another

Summer day

To the course

And to the game

You Left like a Season

Upon the shores of summer

Faded spring growth

Into the sustenance of summer

To be hearty in the bold heat

Humid glow of the moon

To the small creeks and ponds

Of the Indiana shores

Hold up the reason

That you left

Like a season

The Sky Forgot to End

Over the water

Deep of Lake Michigan

There is a city

That could be anything

But can be nothing

The sun and the clouds

At ends

So the clouds have dispersed

Into the sky

And from that sky

Comes the endless blue

When the sky forgot to end

In my eyes I see

The distant scrapers

Upon the shores

Of Lake Michigan

Rainlight

Under the shade of a dense green tree

In the damp hour of light

The rainlight

Plays through the limbs

Into my eyes

On my skin

To take it all in the shelter

Of summer

Cool and hot

With the rainlight

Pouring in

Where the Wildflowers Sleep

In the dusk

Of the spring day

When the work of bloom

Is hardly underway

Into the summer

With damp thick winds

There is a place

The world keeps

Where the Wildflowers Sleep

Under the moon at night

Gentle sway

Gentle light

Take me to the place

Serene and peace

To see

Where the Wildflowers Sleep

The River that Raised Me

Along the shores

Of a southern bending river

There is a city

Made from the times

Gone by

From that town springs life

Year after year

The river that raised me

Runs through the center of the city

To know this river is to know my life

From the water we are created

And will one day

Be washed away

Blueprints for a Man who Never Came Home

Was it yesterday

Or the day before

From the walking silence of responsibility

Goes the man

Who delivers no hope

No resolution

To walk out and never look back

How can the live of a human being

Not be so fragile as to crack

In the silent of the evening hours

For this is the blueprint of

A man who never came home

If Time had Teeth

What would happen

From the teeth of time

Biting into memories

Aligned with

Hope or fear

Would I know

If time was coming up

From the rear

Would I be spared or laid bare

In the time I have to imagine

That I have done the most

I can

For if time had teeth

What would be the move

That the clock would ensue

Reborn in the Wreckage

Form me from the clouds

Of smoke

That billow from the wreck

To be born again

Not in perfection

Rather the most imperfect

Comes new life and

Understanding

Reborn from the wreckage

My soul

Jumps at the chance

To try and understand

That we can be born

Again

Everyday