SHOW ‘N TELL
show me
your love
don’t
tell
correction!
after a week of
show
24/7
words
have been earned
will
enshrine, augment
then you can tell;
then we can tell
enthral each other forever
Ooooo in
the way we
tell, tell, tell
SETTLERS
the settlers came
to
grow
their crops
farm
the land
build their cities
write their stories
transform
the landscape
kill
the truth
bury it
for the rest of time
HOMELAND
I am
not into homeland
am unhooked
but not unhinged
my mind wanders
finds fertile soil everwhere
can live in
this space forever
but I would never call it
my homelamd
restrict it to my self
presume the right to
live and legislate
such narrowness
if I were to
how would the Universe
find it in its
ever expanding heart
to condescend
to forgive me.
CUT
Cut the red wire.
No! Cut the white;
cut the blue;
cut the yellow one
we are
wired for apocalypse
hot
for Armageddon
so much mass in us
that we truly matter in
the physics
of everything
cut to
our final, climactic
tragic moment
when we crack
the mathematics
figure out how
to turn ourselves
into nuclear bombs
POLITY
let me speak
on behalf of all small
creatures
myself having
been small creature
who survived extincion event
millions of years ago
having grown to the
power that laughs at
they who could not stay
the great lizards
the thunderous power
ever
expanding power
to destroy this planet
in a moment
on
a whim
with a single breath
let me speak for the worm
and the millioede, the gnat
and yes, the butterfly
let me speak
their polity
their dream of survival,
of creature prosperity
on their behalf
become foreceful, get rhetorical
make a clear case for them
so much
we owe them in that
should
not overlook
in their smallness
humilitu
let me speak
for these creatures, lesr
no one speak for them
EARLIER
earlier
billions of years earlier
you cooked up
a storm in the kitchen
preparing roast, making a
souffle and creating
a Big Bang
which we now know
happened because of a microwave afterglow that
is its
heat signature
and so
for your consummate skill
in creating us
and our
Universe
you have our
undying love and deep
deep thanks
RED FLAG
Oh its a red flag
to the see the flag
of humanity burned
without necessarily first
being
dragged in the mud
why so? Why
should we give a shit
about
humanity and its flag
at all
at all?
this the suffering needed
to preserve the sacred order
whose
flag (blood-
soaked)
of Heaven
must triumph over all.
DREAMCATCHER
glad to see you installed
your dreamcatcher
hanging over your bed,
very best place to be
so many twists and turns
these days in the fabtic of the real
and therefore
one should position
this transcendent web
for
optimum screening
would not want
to find a baby xenomorph
and its twin
chomping their way through
your chest
to celebrate first breath
with the simultaneous
death of
its mummy and daddy
terrible in film, or real life,
let alone a dream
not that there are not
dreams more disturbing,
hideous and
altogether more poisonous
involving ships and planes
missile tracking radar and
self-
appointed
policemen of the seas
IDYLL
got woken up this
morning
Sun streaming in
massive chattering
outside my
window
birds
thronging, nesting all
over the farm, thank God!
not
machine-guns
BREAK
so much fragility
things collapsing
falling apart
nothing as fragile
as a poem,
however
even
the lines
break
poems 2 die for