sunrise in a small city

always in some near relativity
lovely lover
elixer and
earth music
soft sleep winged wheels rested feet
streams of succor
held in lorded picture shows of
buffoonering deception

time carved
alone
a beautiful backdrop of emptiness

swooning into the shade of death
to lose
suddenly
is the way of a steep climb
to a view
of view upon views
just found
shared
a number of some
us in time

(the ravens cry bright shining)

darkworking soulkilling disguised prating fever
in public from here and nowhere
suspended enchanted
speaking of one day
spanning travail burden
just brothers and sisters in glass
suspended
elvish or elvis

(injustice patriarchy washing per happenstance)

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