Also

nubile youth sitting

next to her sweetheart's

muscular thighs

watching the skyline

thinking of sex and 

beauty. human and

mountain alike and

eyeballing my gladiator like

another piece of sex

candy itself

and I feel like a person again

and discovered I'm on 

the other side now

Supervised

Try as I might I get 

swallowed whole

Eaten alive by the 

violence of the polite

conversation dodging 

words like grenades

Forget which way is up

Forget what's goodrightreal

I'm so tired I'm

 backwards and

maybe I just need

a nap

Sacred Space - Alpine Wildnerness

The Mtns pierce the tip

of the sky with

pale blue or green or yellow

rushing mountain water

refreshing my spirit

Sacred space for my soul

a five minute reset

breath in the roar

and river driftwood

spinning in a long 

twenty-five foot circle of inches 

and watch the flat rock

Home in my hear is here

and so on

Come back again and again

Through the Politics of a Smile

For me, the silence is deafening.

The song of my own voice

in my own head echoes

Like an empty hallway. lovely, vast, well constructed 

others belong here, filling the hall with sound and movement 

Your smile glistens to me. Your words silken honey, smooth, slick, enveloping me to my nakedness

There is something else too, hidden amongst the gold

I don't understand a smile that doesn't reach your eyes

a brutal incongruity

I am grown strange

The cool October rain comes and pours love upon me

The light of the sun sneaks out for brief moments, easy to miss

I see the rainbow, glowing across the sky in a rare show of color

It reminds my heart to sing-in the end of summer and time for rest

Would that another could see

I wander away, to see the golden light of evening filter through the trees

Joy envelops me

true love exists with the divine

everything else

is something else