Pendulum at Rest

I watch the pendulum arch back and forth
Steady in it's motion as it moves 
between two extremes

It begins to slow and comes
to rest in the middle

The lesson is here

Walk the Waves

First light and there is
no one around
Alone in silence
I walk down the hill
Sloping towards the beach
Waves call louder with each step
Sand gives and shifts below my feet
Water foams and licks the shore
At last the touch of cold water
soaks my feet and electrifies
my body into full alertness
I press forward into the
water as I sink deeper
into the salty depths
as my clothes cling
to me and my hair
grows wet I bob
up for a breath
inhale deeply
submerge
see the
land
bel
ow

The Name the Wind Calls Itself.

Stealing Ghosts from the Womb

Hold my hand as it were your heart.

This animal which I became.

5 fragments

invocation of the apocalypse

united through mutual fear and awe

sights too wondrous to be denied
to horrific to question eternity

my bones are not for sale
I haven't even died

There's nothing alcohol can't fix or fuck up.

5 Non-sequiturs

I.
Let us hope there is never 
a cure for death.  

II.
A Well Paid Hypocrite.

III.
Fighting the Angels.

IV.
Locked away all day.

V.

The extinction of light.

Two Thoughts From The Drive Home

I.

Insects with halogen eyes

stare unblinkingly

as their red-lit rears run by.


II.

cold static burns

your finger tips

touch my lips