After Frost and Hue

I ride iron over land as stone skips over sea,
never known the future from my running from the past
like jumping free as the trains change track;

two paths diverge and that train,
that train seemed bound for no place
so I see I must turn back.

I opened a pistashio...

Pop-
ping shell;

the tomaley
of a lobster

leaping out,
f
a
l
l
i
n
g like a cone from a tree,

brains turning over,
set loose--

maybe set free--
twisting for a moment,

turning for a moment
in the breeze.

When there's what you've dreamed of...

Everything around is

drawing me in

like iron to magnet:

so close I can't let saltwater

go--

like stone

before steel--

some secrets revealed

over time

are perennial,

and you can dare to say, Love,

when there's what you've dreamed of...

Invest your money in sawdust...
there's lots of blood on the floor.

I wonder how many times I've thought that, you know, this is the bottom of the barrel. But somehow I keep scratching a little deeper and the bloody splinters under my nails are wearing down to nubs.

There is no reason
good can't triumph over evil,
if only angels will get organized
along the lines of the mafia.

This year was no better than the last...

Rant

Why don't we go underground...
Jump on a train of thought...
After everyone's done rushing and buying...
Putting up the tree...

Just bustle by...
Like I wasn't here to begin with...
And as cold as that may seem that's Christmas...
Wrapped up in a nice big bow...

And the snow faintly fell past the street light...
As it fell through the universe...
Birds may bring you honey...
And to all a good night.

Inherent Flaw

This way of life is not what you make of it.
It's not as easy as you think.

Some days I see it falling faintly,
falling from this place where days are good.

For what's inherent if there must be good?
What else would a sunny day be?

As skewed as that may seem,
I'm telling you,

that's the way things are.
For you the reader.

For me the writer.
The inherent flaw in my way of life

is the life I choose to live,
what isolates everyone else from

me.