dream vacation

I would go places
poems live before they find
their way to paper

Selected Poems Video, Part 14

adventure

I have spent my years
walking through the quiet air
seeking the poem

Selected Poems Video, Part 13

note to my students

I grow if you grow
I give you space for dancing
with the butterfly

Selected Poems Video, Part 12

stars

yield their light to me

with no true obligation
yet I love them back

Selected Poems Video, Part 11

sleepless

dreams pass by hunting
for pathways through my breathing
and I make them wait

journey

make yourself at home
you will ride along with you
for many more years

Selected Poems Video, Part 10

pecan

husks cover the yard
wet by rain after the storm
they will dry healthy

Selected Poems Video, Part 9

mildew

grows in the plant roots
clotting the blood of flowers
inside the greenhouse

Selected Poems Video, Part 8

snails

rise up the siding
as if they have a firm plan
to conquer the house

Selected Poems Video, Part 7

stretching

my muscle and bone
to catch time discarded by
dreams in the garden

Selected Poems Video, Part 6

jobless

today was anger
wondering if I can really
trade poems for food

Selected Poems Video, Part 5

sleep

I felt a poem
happy to be so alive
die when I woke up

Selected Poems Video, Part 4

music

listen to the stars
when you step outside tonight
start to sing along

lost

my self looks for me
confused in the dark waking
to new worlds waiting

Selected Poems Video, Part 3

desk

when I have written
I start another new page
right here tomorrow

Selected Poems Video, Part 2

coffee

the pain of old love
is the bread of life we taste
in morning poems

Selected Poems Video, Part 1

canvas

she paints her own self
without the need for mirrors
her brush reaching deep

thought

fragile cloud balanced
precariously inside
the dances I dream

dawn

celebrate our life
for everything exists here
in the morning light

song

to see the words dance
with the notes on staves above
is a secret joy

present

so hard to live there
till everything is taken
then there is no choice

bees

shape a wide cradle
to rock the fruit of flowers
from their little legs

rain

despite its absence
fruit rises from the desert
laughing at this man