The white crow flies over me

When walking nightmares

Are back in the world of dreams.

THE SUN RISES

Like a lump of soft yellow butter

On my toast, waiting to be spread

I devour this day

Experience crisp and sweet

The slight taste of salt

Tantilizing my mouth and nostrils

The jelly reaches my tongue

My brain is alive

With the always newness of Time

Reaching to a shout

The full taste of each hour puckering

Washed down with fresh juice---

The fruit of this bright world!

Demise

My inevitable demise

Will return me

To the flowers and the skies.

I will pass through that door

My soul dissolve in air

The colors of life exist no more.

I will be still

In the breath of the universal

Existence my moleciles fill.

All will hold me yet

I will be

Always the soul you met

Yielding to the One

Eternity.

IN THE DARK MINGLED

glory of afternoon

Lavender cattails

Grow from the railroad

Up to the Turnpike

Beyond these tracks

That once bent forever

Into the wind beyond today

Bridges laced in steel

Are huge bracelets crossing

The marsh land

For small men whose dreams

Are larger than

The stunning simple beauty

Of small birds and furry mammals.

SUN

Glows red

Red birds circle

Over this clear space

Leafy trees

Are rising green

Into the greeting

Of a laughing sky.

SUNRISE

The night explodes

Giant fingers of light

Hands of creation

Hold me in the cradle of night

Born again with each day.

Darkness, a prisoner carried

Into these hours of glory

So that I glow

Life tingles on my skin

The power of this beauteous

Rainbow from times' spreadeagle prism.

Tomcat

Into heaven

Where the old Tom-cat resides

A great immutable eye

And I, I in my new life

Touched by Joy

Midst the fruits of eternity

Touching the nervous system

Touching the life wiring

Of this universe

On a glittering, glistening web

The dew is gathered

To link the stars.

I, I read my e-mail

At home in Orion

Where each day

We eat donuts

Yet stay as young and thin

As we wish, We are.