Friday, April 15, 2011

What might have been lost?


What might have been lost?
ideas

Quick! with your hand
    leave them all behind

the snow on the mountain
the cloud in the sky

On the way back,
I blinked,
like the T encircled 
while mustached heroes
 spoke of their destination
and beautiful listeners
     created beautiful memories.
each one a little dirty
   I’ll dream of you,
I promised.
but black divided by gray
equals= ALL is ALL
and misty minutes drove me
they dictated my every action
attention, my Capital
first I need a drink

She writes in coloured pencil?
a different for each mood?

I pretended it was you
but it wasn’t
it was someone beautiful

an overboard presence,
just a picture,
pause enough

know that the "I"
is not alone
there is someone.
someone who might
be able enough to
understand if not
then my opinion: 
All is Doomed.

But there are too many 
beautiful hands here,

Now here with your hands,
leave them all behind.



I was in Chile. After a day trip to the the mountains in early spring. A long day of hiking, sledding, and enjoying some iron infused natural heat springs. There were five of us in a small pick up truck. The ride up was cramped and a little bit sweaty. My girlfriends brother and I elected to sit in the bed of the truck rather than squeeze back in.We winded our way down, through little extremely rural villages, past higher pastures with their cattle and Huasos. Max listened to Bob Dylan on his headphones, I listened to Max signing along. We left a trail of dust in the dirt road as the sun set over the powerful Andes. It was some time ago, a couple years. But for a flat-lander from the Cape, it's not a memory that will fade any time soon.



Where does the snow on the mountains
become the clouds in the sky?
When is going to a foreign country
no different from going home?
what might have been lost?
simply the view of le bleu
the sky hides from me
I’ve left lives behind
I’m simply living away.
life is too short
to see so many lives walk

consistently, constantly, cautious


What might have been lost?
ideas

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Whence Birds of Prey

     then was something unlike today
     sleepless at first
          now a headful of awareness
     for the skin I shed was careless
     then I found my thirst
     my 'desperate, fevered thirst'

     the memory of an old emotion
     to reawake an old devotion
     align my heart, put pen in motion

     she's

     whence I turned, 
     and from there faced the edge 
     of my reasoning


Monday, April 4, 2011

It's simple really, this ever encouraging March is over. 
It make take some days to find what April holds for me. While I struggle with the ticking clocks and changing calenders I invite you to take a look at what March had brought to me. 

Most of the drawings are from March.