8/22
winter vestage
holds to north
slope--flows
down--molding
stone--to a near
perfect sphere--
(shadows on cave
walls?) falls--
sojourns in
tarns--ponds--
lakes--takes
vaporous flight
into a welcoming
sky--or seeks
unity with
the sea to
repose & return
with winter's
snows...

8/21
does the body bemoan
the loss
of feudal certitude?
the mystery of the hunt?
the rhythm of cultivation?
does flesh rebel
against the tyranny
of limitless opportunity?
extract a price of freedom?

the evening news
spews adverts
shilling remedies
for the maladies
of modernity

most of us die
of surfeit

outside
climate controlled rooms
a whirling sky
marks the planet's passage
through infinity--
leaves
bud--photosynthesize--
brown & fall

8/20
note
the inverse relationship
between
contemplation & connectivity--

how the noise
of digital toys
crowds out a space
once used for creativity

new
age brains
once trained
to survive wild places--

now
we are asea in the assembly line
mentality of an industrial
economy

now
we rage @ the 10 second download
wait for restimulation

now
we circle like yaks
back to back
facing outward
thumbs a-twitter
bewildered by the animal within
our skin

next
the organism adapts:
a neuro-electo ADD
extinguishes long-term memory

&
Judge's Idiocracy
becomes a documentary--
watch it live:
as homo (slightly less) sapien 2.0
is hurled
into a Brave New World

8/19
I just saw a new
poll from Pew
that says
18% of Americans
think the President is Mohammedan.
This is hard to fathom since
it's not borne out by evidence
Ask Americans what any truth is
& 20% or so are stupid.
e.g.
20% or so believe...
...that Saddam Hussein planned 9/11
...that Christianity's the national religion
(& is says so in the Constitution)
...that men & dinos coexisted
( that's from science teachers in Texas)
I'm noting, but I'm not surprised,
that these beliefs all lean stage right.
Clearly those who form their views
listening to Limbaugh or Faux News
have gotten just a bit confused.
Could brain damage result from
listening to Republicans?

8/18
On Building a Mosque in a Sacred Place

What is so hard to understand?
Bigotry is un-American.
Yes, the bloodstains on our history are real,
but they are betrayals of the ideals
enshrined by Declaration & Constitution.
Those engaged in this political prostitution--
i.e. mongering hate to pave a path to power--
unleash forces that would leave the land devoured
by a maelstrom of bigotry & hate.
Remember this while it is not yet too late:
This land of immigrants & invaders,
and those enduring few surviving natives,
was not defined by race or even place,
but by a doctrine that the purpose of the state
is to defend our life & liberty
from those who  persecute by race or creed.
And besides-- is not kind of treason to
conspire to prove the terrorist libels true?
We must all mark these bigots--
mark their words--their names
for history to memorialize with shame.

8/17
Sonnet

Was it the boiling ocean that reminded me--
sent me to the bowels of my bag--
as corvid armies rode the air on wheels
and the vermin of Wasilla ravaged slag
mounds from glaciers gone awry?
Sapient homos head for higher ground.
Others take their rapture in the sky
where strings of universes splay unwound.
Once there were basilisks. Once there were dodos,
systems, cycles, & connecting links.
Riddle me this: Where does the soul go
when finally its species is extinct?
We ask of heaven that it set us free
from knowing our responsibility.

8/16

The rage of generations
simmers behind those eyes.
(Assholes breeding assholes... )
So why are we surprised
when we become the target
of one his attacks,
we ignore our better angels
&  reflexively strike back?
The physics of karma
&  the Third Law of Emotion
say what goes around will come around
and second his remotion
from us (who wish the world well)
to his squalid spider hole--
where he plots how to inflict on us
the pain within his soul.