We quake like stones at sunset
And shake like bones on their last parade
Everyone lifts up their voice
To lay you down below
Clouds of people letting go
Fist-crushed petals
Thoughts drifting to the earth
And memories to cover it up green.

Older chases newer
The past is a blur that shatters mountainsides
The trees lean back in quiet reflection
As light bungiejumps from a flickering torch
And we rehearse the route that will be our return
With feet too foolish for heavy souls
On ground too eager for light

play at carrying signs
that point in wrong directions

Having is the idea of
Nothing is the price of
Never is the sound of
No one.

Break don't want to break
Don't want to take no more
Floor, don't leave this floor
Don't ever reach the door
Shake, just go and shake
Just go and shake it off
Lock, don't open up
Don't open up no more.

Here and There

Here and there
The droplets tumbled down
Here and there
Whispering wetness to the ground
Here and there
Air weighed with promises of green
Here and there
Leaden leaves curtsey and bow
Here and there
Gravity drinks the sky

Here and There

Here is where you crouch and kick
You shatter the shins of cautious thought
As it circles around you at an unsafe distance

Here is where the dust is churned
Turning the air deep butter brown
Painting skin and cloth in clay
But leaving the whites starkly untouched

Here is where you growl to yourself
And so to everyone in that voice of lost thunder
Of when the angry sky twitches and stamps a foot

Here is where your your eyes and head unite
Racing against the confinement of degrees
In that rolling hunted bovine way. Cornered and dangerous.

Here is where words in their crisp uniforms
And pastel blue helmets, jackknife their rifles
Spraying haphazard bullets, to mow an unwanted lawn

Here a betrayal so unlooked for that each
Syllable is its own shock. A fresh needle in the eye
As I mumble my peacekeeping with shifting feet
And pretend not to feel each metal Judas kiss.