Beautiful Egypt
Is burning
My heart
Reduced to ashes
Elegy
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Beautiful Egypt
Is burning
My heart
Reduced to ashes
Tag Archives: life
In that space
In that space between waking and sleeping
In the subtle slip, the drip
That turns the period into the comma,
In the hole in the zero
Whole worlds explode into being
The point between breathing
In and out
The curl of before and after
The warp and weft of here and now
Open the infinite wide
You say you know something
Of life and illusion
Please tell me how
Such emptiness
begets all eternity
In leaps dawn
In leaps dawn
Like impetuous whimsey
All dressed in fiery red
Eyes burning with mad ambition
A pox on sleep!
The fawning dead
Drifting endlessly into
Oblivion
Not for us!
Up like buttercups
Like spiky woven thistles
Up toward the solar apogee
Until finally, inevitably,
The long graceless glide
Begins again
In slips dusk
All dusky
Down to the beach
I went down to the beach in sworls
Longing for sun-bound benediction,
The binding waves’ delight
I went down to the beach in fancy,
The souls of a billion stars
Shone in the sand-blown wind
I went down to the beach in breathless,
Red-green ancient charts
New sprung each forgotten day
I lost my footprints
Without a glance
The mirror’s depth
Once upon a dreaming green
By the ocean’s clapping heart
Swayed full with thunder wonder
I saw the river flowing
Change course, dry up
Make islands, golden dreams
Drain fields, ambitions
Unmitigated, oblivious
Winging onward
Like crabgrass, Like dirt
Unbounded
Like winds unhinged
No rhythm so replete as days
Each different, all unchanging
Grief and joy alike
Turn to dross, cheap decoration
You, agent of emptiness, why
This running choice, this still
Cunning, this rumination
Of not ending, not beginning?
I read the universe arose from nothing,
So gone, so not
I try to keep it from slipping shut,
A splendid churl, eyes blinking
exiles child 