He has powers over animals
like darkness itself
poorly understood.
“An obscenity, indeed”…
Venus shines with the idea
that a judge has spoken,
even when she is feeling
the fatigue of spring…
There are places the worlds are held together
tatted in fine lace of subtle connections.
The silver birch born astride the crumbling
trunk of a decaying ancestor…
In this tall, sturdy house
Lay an old, wrinkled sleeper;
A lonely old man,
Whom we call the lighthouse keeper…
I want to go to Heaven when I die
but something tells me I won’t like it
as much as I do life on Earth and for
that matter Eternity in Hell…
At the end of my journey,
I meet the dying form of a man,
an old musician past his prime,
with a face as gray…
My memoirs are dying
In foggy weather.
And that caravan
Has gone to the stars forever…
As alien, a voyager from distant space,
home planet hidden to mankind, I was
curious about the little dot that became
a whirling blue marble as I approached…
A beautiful woman’s face
is painted on the glass of my life.
I am seeing everything
through that face…
When the Emperor Insanus—
from whose name we derive
“insane”—hosted banquets to
celebrate victories, he would haul…