Howl
A wolf howls deep on a mountain top lost to the human eye. As we shop down below on the open, strip mall prairie. Cornered. Hunted down. All rational instinct stolen. Forced to believe in the supernatural. Not natural. Not the here and now, but the hereafter. He no longer hunts. He sits on his […]
In Defense of Poets
If the shit ever hits the fan, and we find ourselves selecting a group to start over, don’t count us out. We might not know how to hunt or fish or garden. We might not know how to govern or how to lead. We might not know medicine or construction. We might not know how […]
Look Forward
if there is a chance. another way. to survive the storm. it is through you. your generation will rebuild a nation that has taken one step forward and two steps back. for we seek progress from the attack of facts. proving basic math. from religious fanatics of the old ways. of primitive thinking. from which […]
To Level Up
In order to understand any problem one must have empathy. One must imagine themselves in the shoes of another. Humanize the enemy. The spree killer. The deserter. The terrorist. With love and family and fear. Somewhere something went wrong. With that deer in the headlights blank stare, the ability to feel the other’s loss lost. […]
Open Armor Like Flesh
Russia is the army we trained to fight with its tanks, ships and military might. All through the 80’s I was RED scared as I played soldier in the Mississippi woods. Defending against soldiers who parachuted into my mind’s backyard. The movie Red Dawn made quite an impact. Their fight for their freedom in a […]
Farming Consciousness
a deep sorrow grows inside the human heart as it echoes centuries of war. of fighting for. something we can never achieve. a liberty. a justice. a freedom. a peace. we seek together to relieve the revenge programmed deep inside our DNA. birthed in far away lands. pyramids slaved out of rock and sand throughout […]
Dance With Alladin
The clouds are magic. Painted desert smoke signals signs of coming trouble. Thunder blossoms outward. Bombs dropped all around. Schools. Nurseries. Hospitals. There is nothing civil about civil war. There is no target too holy or too sacred. Children are brainwashed for food and water. Massive bombs strapped to chest. Their enemies draped in armor […]
Don’t Disturb Time
Take the target off line. Move into its core. Mal-align the spine. And it will move anywhere you wish. Be it a person or a nation. Block and strike simultaneously. Take it by the wrist with sinking hips, use centripetal force, like a tornado moves ships. Remember to give time for retreat. For another opponent […]
Call and Response
I took centuries from you as you waited patiently knowing I would not return. Years, became months between the day, I began to prepare again, sharpening knives for distant lands, then the day came when, my letter and body returned by horseback. It seemed like that happened again, and again and then, once I came […]
Rounding the Corner
As we bike to school this morning, passing the park, the sun rising, the morning light shining off of pastel clouds, my eight year old asks to look at the faces of the men posted on the public restroom. I say, let’s don’t because, they are monsters. Pedophiles to be exact but I don’t repeat […]
To Retreat
Some land Off the grid Often hid Next to streams A tiny house Burning wood for heat A place to pack up To retreat To hit the road when things get bad This is the dream I often have Living off the land With ax in hand Asking only that we may live Ask me […]
Opera of the Puppets
[reengineered puppeteering] among the seven billion we are the cantastorie we are not the corporate heads or bankers doing the Russian Mafia’s laundry washing the filthy gains of the Karzai brothers cleaning for the cartels we sing of the dancing marionettes forced to fund the weaponized might- actors of enforcement for the global manipulators we […]
Thanks for the Memories
I remember when. I remember when, I had one. A memory. I think. I remember when simple tests didn’t hurt my brain. When I didn’t feel like I just took the SAT after listing as many animals as I can in a minute. I score in the first percentile on that one. That is last […]
No Kings or Queens
I wonder what can we do? What does caring improve? How much can action move? When people don’t even believe in evolution. When people don’t even believe in climate change. When people believe in an Adam & Eve. Two sentient beings put on Earth in Eden. Naming animals like they were the chosen. And they […]
The Beat Goes On
it only takes one line to be crossed for any American President for the drum beat to begin · · · – – – · · · · · · – – – · · · · · · – – – · · · ships are moved planes are armed poison or nuclear the […]
