Children of the Flame
Hands in soil as we toil. Labor intent on solving hunger and thirst. All spare ground newly found and used to farm. To mend. Roofs turned into nurseries. Muscles tense. Tendons enhanced. Working hard for this, our second chance. Time is transient. One day moves into another amended only by the seasons. All movement set […]
The Cleansing
A sphere rotates Inside energy migrates From the land to the sea. Connecting everything. The stars. The sky. The clouds. The streams. The rivers. The oceans. Morphing together as one. An arm, a leg an eye. Pulled inward and outward. Cleaning the Earth’s blood. The soil. The plants. The water. The animals. The bacteria. The […]
Learning to Live
Be it a wave, a flood, a tree. We have suffered, you and me. Roofs ripped off. The wiring is bad. The pipes are busted. Nearly losing everything and glad. Been near death. Seen the other side and held my breath. Seen life flash before my eyes and came back. Life is short and sweet. […]
Season to Reason
I have flown these skies Viewed space with these eyes Trying to find a place to live To make my nest Flying by moonlight Seen super box stores Suburbs squared and rectangle Cities grown out of nothing A once mighty jungle tamed And re-framed I have watched my kind grow I have seen greed choke […]
The Human Compromise
This existence with all that it is. The barbed wire fences built and then destroyed. The tribes we nurture and then employ. I am surrounded by family. The ones who mean the most to me. My partner and my progeny. All of this is for them. All the doors I kick in and defend. All […]
Thinning of the Herd
What will it take? How many loved ones must die? Disappear before our eyes. As the floods or fires embrace Their last breath. How much longer must we march Towards the cliff. A species asleep. Singing, dancing and straying From our calling to be good stewards Of the planet we inherited. Must another earthquake happen […]
Desert Scabs
I do not grow easily
So you buy me
From a distant land
Grown like scabs
Removed and shipped
A band-aid placed
On the desert you created
Transience
like water we live in states we are born like snowflakes we freeze solid and melt quickly we are unique in design forever changing our geometry sacred we learn to walk, then run a stream, a river, we flow strong enough to cut through rock no boundaries for our thought, we know we flood this […]
The Ordeal
Pablo was stark naked muscles shrunken and scrawny ribs ridged out like a starving horse habitually fat abdomen drawn in almost against his spine within lips disappeared as if amputated leaving only blackened tissue teeth and gums like a skinned animal flesh black and dry as beef jerky nose withered to half its length nostril-lining […]
Water Sings
it flows through our lands and through our veins. it goes where it can unless we contain. the fluid of life we cannot replace. two days without we all meet our fate. we bottle it. we dam it. we pipe it. we strain it. it is sold like gold to poor people now. river waters […]
