DEATH before BIRTH
awake in the dark to
no sunrise today
just a grey to grey to grey and brown
they call it mud season up Narth.
as I get older,
the days go by more steadily,
quickly.
unremarkable maybe,
but for
here and there
a pain I didn't have before.
I watch my daughter sleep,
I make her a sandwich for school,
so fresh, her days, too fresh
for the grey to take over.
Two boats in a van
two guys
in a van. Over the potholes, no traffic
in the murk.
I meditate on this; the murk
smell of bad cats,
in the eddy of the back patio.
On the river, there is that aroma.
only 10 % sh#!t
90% vital substance,
flowing into Army infrastructure
a squat war on the horizon
a concrete pipe
to defy the imagination
(it's so big they had to put it underground).
RENEWAL
Big mother of a bird
I think
he's that yung guy, who used to sit there speckled,
and now I can see the yellow of his talons
from a river width away.
THE WHITE ROOM
amazing
how vertical
a fluid
can get.
before crashing
your bow
douching your nostrils.
Tom and John, high speed,
down the slot
down the slot
pitted.
THE DINOSAUR
the bow wave of fear
and the spiny monster sleeps
Shreduard tempts fate, dissapears over the horizon.
I head right, towards the upper island hole,
a double jump through the upper angle wave,
and emerge, kissing the white water, safe
above the pit, and then
plunge into it,
just a little bit.
We wait on the breathing chest of the monster,
fear, anger, sadness
all gone downstream
J-man emerges, and tags the edge
grinning.
It's work to cross the beast's back,
that river seething, and Eddie gets eddied
by the chunder hole as he tries to catch the top md wave,
right side up again,
its seems the fear hadn't all gone down river.
ONLY SANE MEN FEAR DEATH
as for the rest,
they usually get 'his' story
the grateful dead made more recordings than
anybody ever.
to this we are
awake
'thine' is the glory
and ours is the sadness
of the unexamined life
only if we forget
despite the passing of
days
spring is coming
a righteous fury of indig-nation
seize the carp.
as for the rest,
they usually get 'his' story
the grateful dead made more recordings than
anybody ever.
to this we are
awake
'thine' is the glory
and ours is the sadness
of the unexamined life
only if we forget
despite the passing of
days
spring is coming
a righteous fury of indig-nation
seize the carp.
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