Killing Softly With Song

When feelings and thoughts give me a hard time
can I slow them down to at least half-time--
til I sense they’re just life-force breaking out--
making songs from barely bearable shouts?

Presence is Easy When Our Present is a Present

Caressed and hugging
always touched, snuggling
life's synagoging.

Channel Animal

Speaking without dancing
destroys all romancing:
when my body’s ignored
it farts, wants to whore.

May my body and mind
speak like a vocal mime
so each word from my lips
is a meaningful kiss.

Does the Big Bang Care?

Past, present and future sights and sounds
caress, love and guide us all around.
We feel always blessed by cosmic waves—
but is there a caring God who saves?


When we sense Big Bang's a Big Blossom,
see folks as love-fruits from Eve-Adam,
the fruit they taste challenges us to know
Cosmic Tree juices want us to grow.

Touch Much and Smell Well

Since “dog” is “god” spelled backward,
a dog’s love smells of the lord’s.

"I Will Cause Breath to Enter Bones" Ezekiel 37:5

I’ve little memory
of mother hitting me
with painful ecstasy.
Numb in mind and body,
I break glass when she’s gone—
imagine breaking bones,
moving me to scream, moan:
Sensing bone marrow frees
her to breeze, me to breathe.

Bone Poems

“I Will Cause Breath to Enter Bones” Ezekiel 37:5

I’ve little memory
of mother hitting me
with painful ecstasy.
Numb in mind and body,
I break glass when she dies--
feeling bone marrow frees.

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Bone Voyage

Bones come from fire--
so does all else—
bones thus desire
to warm all selves.

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Home's Our Bones

When at home
in our bones
not alone
we know "om."