painting bowling balls full of smaller flowers using a van motor

inside
trying opening with the rest
lotus flowers sit low & high clouds
restless tigers where she is bored fixed to walls
she'll sound tears filling air pieced together with miserable timing
i'll be across over on black island with lonely stones having lost our way

a bitter wolf skinny
outlining moon craters howl
going nuts where it aint right
offshore a few hard sailors (blasted) downing rum
their nonsense holds a polished brass spyglass telescope
you would imagine mothers' mastered better days
another hopeless mess of music hits guitar hands where no lit lighthouse screams with the wolf

you would
i would not
screaming banshee
a fiddler's place without eyes has no gold pieces in his case
he sits playing sideways for no one
trees remain blown aloud bowed
still playing on
string player's horsehair bow dives across distances between sky & fingers
a sun & a willow try to remind him where she will be writing her diary next

her dreams
she pen
her cares
she holds
her glistening undone self
she

it's just a hungry green & purple catapulted-vaulted-lid as vast as imagination dares
her poor smile relit lotus

from time to time
snow rainbows hit me
my mouth broken
beat by miracles
whipped into joyous dance
i saw all marching valley dandelions whisper within another wind & another wind
easy far puff dances at a constant pleasure filled float
this is where she lies the soft bed down
a waiting open candle or two storms in my chest

she'll come down
autumn like
when before this very winter you shoulda saw these forests let loose & slip away
a cold grave of twigs snap footprints
trusting paths circle pillows where we hold on
where without asking for or trying for spectacular dreaming has their ways with us

it's not as simple as it seems

(1978)

death
birth
remember

how happy will you be when going
while slipping from your mind
a heartbeat not any longer had

i think about this often
reminded by life we all go away
we all happened from our beginnings
selective stars thrown to the ground
it was felt like hammers & breast bones met as shorelines
you spun chaos about the room
bloodied up
mountains bloated weep coming & going
shrinking blasts
you can hear each sun sin in darkness
it is as countless as bone cancer
or a ripping instrument for pain

you're born
you're no more
a diamond hidden or exposed
black curtains made of stone
lead weights come down long halls of life
nothing new in feeding oceans' deep bottom
dragging across coral all our dreams
all our fears
every bit of our happiness way beneath buried

we can not understand this swirl
this is time untied
no more roar from beasts
where the crying moon still lands like always far off & naked
alongside the lost highway we can not remove ourselves from

using a wing feather
we passed sage around 700 years ago
where a hawk flew through the web
a black widow inside the sky

she from far away fruit my tears
moon's romance against earth's blood
another waterway filled passion
her damp ceiling gathering stars unseen
a rainy night inside got led zeppelin calling

ancient hills in thump
being inside you'll feel everything in heaving
the caves all ours
every escapes all night long
even rivers run love down like a big fucking drum from the sun