To Eat My Own Head

My head was baked for 3 hours at 400 degreesFeeling my skull with my fingertips My brain tasted saltylike seawater Those little knobs at the inside edge of the eye socket Gristle, hard to scrape out with my teethAs a child, I used to push real hard with my index fingers on the soft edges…

Fragments

When a light wave is not a light waveLikewise the divine hospice workers and nursesThank you in advance, in ways that words do not expressDonny, we will have to tell your Dad that men from Mars are planning to destroy Earth!d“That would require telling the truth and I hate telling the truth”THEY are making us…

Lightening Rod

Shadows of SentienceThat same flyBuzzing around the kitchen for days nowFoucault, tripping his brains outat Zabriskie point with Sisyphus He just wants to be punishedby that handsome Daddy In a pastel sweaterMetal rods on religious towersCreating an 18th century furor of origin stories Zeus Elohim Allah and God OMKa BlamOne hand thunder clappingThe coyote is smoking peyote400 year old 7 ft….

No Shaman Slips Away

Requiem for Sam “niemand bleibt hier” – Maria Osic Digital haze, the realm,One drunken night, where fates did overwhelm.He found herWaiting in his phoneFrom the trailer,A ’48 Spartan Manor’s in our old backyard,Impatient A tale, its essence unbound.A sadness, reallyA message arrived, a magical connection,Heidi, implausible Mexican name, she took him around the bend.A piece…

Momentum of Faith

(A year after the first sonic boom) Alpha, Son of Eve, Isis, GaiaAt the table of a powerful publisher in Westchester,beyond the spires of Gotham,The honored guestruefully identifies the swirling cognitive layer of existence, He, a banished paleontologist – FranciscanIn full frock, pining for ParisTo his left The beautiful Hollywood starlet in a risqué negligée…

White Light Sliding

Illumination Transcendence is time, senseUnderstanding, nonYou knowMaybeWe’re both really deadYou sayMaybeI’m out of my headFeverRisingOut of controlYou thinkDo theyStill have a soulMountains risingInto the skyYou thinkMaybeThey’re not really so highTemperature RisingOut of our brainYou know MaybeWe both are insaneorYou knowMaybeWe’re both just in painSamsara bingoAttached to all suffering Surfing the wavesSay “Goodbye Self”Hello great clouded…

Semipermeable Membrane 

in timelessness of    now and here,           programs lost in mazes,consciousness blooms,    fear, trepidation      humanity’s embrace  favorite doll lost out the car window, on a bridge high above the redwood trees endlessness finite minds, yet boundless we connect,our spirits touch vast,        brilliant          solar,the cloud of mystery’s dialect,evolution’s rhythm,     ceaseless,        unstoppable. beyond usthe…

SuperGlue Gunsight

Feathered pianos serenades usZephyr whispers at cheese-filled clouds whenVelvet elephants prance on torn marshmallow packages.Superglue gunsight with dark meat, a muzzle, a promise.Banana skin shoes for waltzing with pineapples rotting flavor edge. JigsawSymphonies hum in a teacup, resonated.Infinite jesters mental tango withConstellations formed in chaos.Let the Lunar fireflies hum.Clockwork owls hoot in nocturnal riddles, gouged…

Whisper of the Ax 

(Daddy Issues) “A bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench.” A self help book“The Open Marriage”Lies on the bedsideA distance could be felt A steady silent whittling away Confusing what intimacy wasFor us teens, watching, waiting Cruelty in our dreams Going “bowling “ againDuring the family dinnerAvoiding his favorite in-lawsHis breath, Cutty…

Baby Ghosts Smoking

Mother Mary full of …The virgin’s sustained orgasmTake a deep breath Before that initial infantile screamIn a realm of gentle nicotine airs, “a man’s mildness” Advertised by Phillip Morris with cigarettes’ traces,Mike Wallace’s distant face, flickers In Margaret Sanger’s interview, the past’s caress, deniedBirth controlledEngaged in death’s aura.Cherub whispers at the edge of timeA hidden…