Flames trailing flaring
fender. Accelerator
down, slicing the wind.
fender. Accelerator
down, slicing the wind.
Still…
“Travelling South East Asia,” he said
“You’ll wake up every morning
And have no idea
What the day will bring.”
Where the sounds of water
Lapping at your canoe
The trill of a loon
And a child’s laughter
Splashing in the lake
Become a presence
Getting there
To a place without feeling
I find a wasteland of being
An emptiness
In the midst of plenty
Like hummingbirds
Carrying thimblefuls of water
To extinguish a bonfire
After which two things happened: I looked at my mother, and I touched it.
No. No, no.
Divine
I mean divine.