shell games sleep and wait
hatred fast past all other
drag my soul through blood

retreating man child
proclaims indolent gem snarls
shabby cheap plastic flip flops

Death...bad idea ?
Or is it better than life ?
Not so black and white

I will walk across
The dirty ocean of death
And never find land

on Satan's mouthpiece...
can't be really real - can it?
probably common

down to the water
flame singing in rivulets
gifts stay and elude

now heather heavy
purple sifting through the breeze
moments from falling

passive passionate
extinct crows rising mountains
rambling Jack Elliot

The sun in your smile
Melting the snow in my heart
Love's winter is gone

Down Mexico way
they harvest skulls for Lupe
Dulce pan, Dulce Lunes

trilogy of want
suns pulled through the pores of night
fallen angels kissed

last night falls from day
stays to watch her shallow breath
bathes in dawn’s cold rose

warm stops quiet there
holds the small of Winter’s back
on small things waiting

Hand in hand we fall
Take the life in both our fists
Swallowed by the mist

Cut across the back
Damaged inside and outside
Shall we go indoors ?

I'm feeling less proud
Living a life so shrouded
Crowded with life's sins

Taken at 60
Traveling route 66
60 something pills

6 hundy 6 6
The devil he don't live there
It's ol' man Rivers

soft grey caws melt thought
winter gardens harbor crows
cold dreams stow reason

summer spines skyward
birds of bone follow their fall
roosting in graveyards

nine shades since morning
silver swaddling form and light
against November

gem webbed silhouettes
still pirouettes near water
songs nearer to mine

so close to falling
hills of August in decay
living in the dale