checkered shadows in a glen
or human tailored light on baked and fired sand and mud
floating in air on hands to lips
seeming happenstance
your spoken mind to others assured
now found
in your mothers fucking love
the geography illusion
through barren vale
ocean and sky fusing into ruthless vast and gloomy
beasts of manner and prey
her nest scratched in black time
(of course shakespeare was a racist, he was a christian)
first cry me a river
was a marsh
iris ensata
circles in the water rippling out
y is war juxtaposed with paradise
hoo invokes some ghost
wow the dancing in the streets the bonfire the feast the banquet
same chill morning breath in waving greenstrapsea
pigmentation due to anthocyanidins is reinforced by the presence of other colorless flavonoids
places are destinationless
unselfish unoppressions unframing
grounded in dark
surrounded by black
black is the source of light
speaking
a story perhaps
or a story in the making
somehow sunlight warm in the telling
not yet lost or vaporizing
with so many birds as something
whistle inside a flute vibrating box
right in the middle of black and white
One –
there are times
randomness arranges
all our thoughts who are here
some imprint the same
seen again so alive keep printing
as we are talking and walking
cast –
long jawed spider
chorus
catbird/blue flag iris
george
oro and pablo
mulan
perdida
long jawed spider –
i walk and weave
over by water offering
streaming silver
to suns and moons
chorus –
they find places
pools in circles fountain
pipe stone maple lily
berry hyacinth reeds
long jawed spider –
high wire to darkness and daylight
stepping here
chorus –
or there or here
stoneflies midges
whir tapped waiting web
eight times many hands unfold
long jawed spider –
i sail into shade
over this pool
then evening
odd to see catbird just there close
chorus –
they poise eight stringed
breathing kite
catbird –
you would pass here
undetected
long-jawed spider –
i am a traveler
offering silk
catbird –
hide your prayers well
earthbound
walking in air over water
you become me in moonlight
chorus –
when ice begins
to still the dew
catbird –
i will
mind your prayer
chorus –
so it flies away
and into a tall magnolia
long-jawed spider –
now this night
dew bejewelled
i am not hungry at all
but thirsty
chorus –
they pass around the water
back and forth
unencumbering
a leaf falling in gentle wind
long-jawed spider –
here in the bush
over a wet stone wall
reeds near the algae
probed by fish
a maple
where nothing lands
under the fringe tree
in blackening ginger leaves
chorus –
eight are the places
for cloud-like sacs
long-jawed spider –
as suddenly as i thought it
catbird perches close
chorus –
they stretch their legs
straight out in front and behind
catbird –
summer was good to you
and to me
chorus –
now the story
of two hundred thousand moons
they stand up stretching
wings outspreading
catbird –
you do not see me crouch
as i launch into the air
all around you
soaring but not moving
long-jawed spider –
my prayer has summoned
blue flag iris
catbird –
now I fall like
light into the pond
chorus –
so much breathing sun
lighting dark space
feathers radiate
dissipate
falling like fire works
into murky water
sinking floating coalescing
luiminesce
blue flag iris –
with the roar of a fire unheard
i swim near the surface
chorus –
their luminescence flows
thru one fish two others and next
george –
i am ghost-like
many shades of our moon
i am iris
first sprouting
blue flag iris –
from earth to air
edge of small water
large forest
just lovely now in always
oro and pablo –
i am fiery silver gold
i am bold dabs black orange
we animate as one
swaying blue in green sea
blue flag iris –
what beyond woodland
in forever mostly empty place
mulan –
I am all colors
of every fish
watch closely
every lumen bursting fading
blue flag iris –
life of eight thousand flowers
as catbird we might see
perdida –
i am mostly black mostly white
i leap from the surface
as blue flag iris
shimmer into new morning shadows
blue flag iris –
flying as catbird we see
once is something never lost
just once woodland flowers
consume you spider
chorus –
they shake the web
a glowing drum
flower of smoke spiraling
something that was here
long-jawed spider –
is gone
yet i remain earthbound
chorus –
orb weaver sac spinner
wind flute sunlight eater
blue flag iris –
our fading blue song
grey wings dark eyes
exhalation toward
swirl of stars