Sea Turtles

In Cleveland
there's a $400 bounty
on the persons responsible
for throwing a mare and her foal
over a bridge....
breaking their necks in the process...

every species of sea turtle is
endangered,

from dawn's early light
it's the human garbage-mind
that lays waste
in a blink of an eye,
in the toss of a can,
in the terrible acts of stupidity
selfishness and hate

In Iran, a woman is asking:
"an eye for an eye";
she was blinded by acid
by her professed beloved
and a man in New York
cut off his wife's head,

it's a sad thing that the
human mean gene
seems to be replicating
at an alarming rate.

2.


limbo.
so this is
what
it feels like?

stuck between
alternate realities
on the way
to who knows where?

my heart of joy
and my mental confusion
live side by side
like lovers
spooning
in the marital bed
of what dreams may come

a new day begins
when the sun rises
for the storyteller in me
and the saga continues
its melodrama
comic relief
and romantic aspirations,
but for now
snow is falling
soon the cold winter of my discontent,
will break through
Spring will flower
a warming ritual of rebirth,

and wonder of wonders,
I will still wonder what will happen
to Anna as page after page
fills in its own blanks,
though a rustling breeze,
and sudden whoosh
casts away any script I would have
written,
the windows of my soul open
like an empty chamber.


3

deep inside this ripple of being,
inside this flesh-suit of desire
wanting to be known,
to be touched,
to be persuaded, disuaded
integrated and
emancipated,

we are but a rip, a tear in the
fabric of the universe,
a hole in the ozone,

passing through

charming chameleons of change,
blending into what is no more....


4.

Much love my Love.