CURIOUS FACTS

CURIOUS FACTS

An old man singing

a moon song

of the third eye in the sky

said use an old idea

early in the morning

once a search is in progress

something will be found

in the tidal reefs

a mirror sleeping

a blind-eyed bird singing

like Orpheus.

Don’t be frightened

by the somberness of clouds

in the dawn’s light.

3/31/94

Daffodils (drawing)

TWILIGHT ARRIVES

TWILIGHT ARRIVES

Twilight arrives late and out of breath

looking for a reason to blame the sun

or perhaps the night—for vagaries of light.

It begins as an excuse, turns into a reason

even though birds come & innocence

returns to a life of wrinkled sleep.

It opens all kinds of darknesses.

Here, where light learned how to fly,

here, where darkeness learned

its own conclusion, its own end.

Here where the edge of night

arrives at the beginning of dawn,

where darkness turned to stone,

all is quiet, the world created

from the perfection of sleep.

All is darkness,

all is light.

3/9/94