Sleep

At times sleep slides by like sand,
pouring slowly over you
as if you were in the hourglass, suffocating.
Other times sleep is like snow.
Melting until it is not what it was.
Hanging around
- in dirty patches in the mud of morning.
Sometimes, it is food - essential
yet distasteful - not done properly.
Sometimes you forget it -
halfway remembering but always putting it off
dirty clothes
- getting by with what you put away last time.
Sometimes, just like eating or doing laundry
it gets put off for a greater good.
Sometimes we don't sleep just so we can love.

5/11/2004

Unsilence in Sunbeams

Feeling round, the people here
use their sound, use their din
They fill their time and fill my ear.
A quiet calm of sun, sitting here with me,
Not quiet din, not quiet sight,
Quiet warm, shining free.
Sun warmed book, held close in hand
Page and page, ink and ink,
Pulls me through a new found land.
Feeling round, the people here
they are my sound, they are my din
they fill my heart and fill my cheer.
Sunshine warm, sunshine still
dusty sunbeams waft, slow to ground
unsilence here, my heart to fill.

Untitled 2/25/05

A stormy thundering in my ears,
rivers through my hair and overwaters skin.
Peeled by a cascade, my skin of soul
delights in the wholesome dwelling,
moved and touched, stroked by the very water of life.

Sweet Autumn Night

The buttered sun sprinkles violet sugar sparkles,
a white milk moon and cookie clouds.
Broken bits of vanilla sky float through
summer-baked cooling autumn air.
Drinking in the evening glow and sweeted shine,
I taste this sweet autumn night.

Definition of vessel

ves·sel n
1. a hollow receptacle, especially one that is used as a container for liquids
2. a ship or large boat
3. a flying craft, especially an airship
4. a duct that carries fluid, especially blood or lymph, around the body
5. a tube that carries water and dissolved minerals through a plant, forming part of the sap-conducting tissue (xylem).
Also called trachea
6. somebody seen as the recipient or embodiment of a quality

Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.


I intend this blog to embody definitions numbers 1 and 6.

Toast

Toast browns
while I wait with butter

"Sit down"
Slow speech with half smiles makes
My heart pound with
needles and doctors

She's sick

The door shuts and I'm alone

while toast, nearly burned,
waits with butter.




Written in 1998

Untitled

hung between two silken threads
my life is a golden balance
half of me is hung with life
and the other with the dead.
dragged down so very deep,
I try to cut death's steely cord
but demise weighs more than lead
and strangles peaceful sleep.
I hang myself with life's cords
and murder life's gentle joy.


Written during the angst of adolescence, maybe 1996?