WATERDOWNSTONE
D PRESS
ELLENSBURG 1993
Cover art by the author
WATERDOWNSTONE
We compare our scars
and talk for hours
You sit, I spin
Love looks through love
.
Our dream
will not
sleep
Feeling
jogs us
awake
I hold you
my heart
and sing
a fool song
to renew
the day
.
You want
your plan
to work
your luck
to change
a miracle to come
I open my heart
right or wrong
and sing this song
GREEN FEELING
The rain comes down
on our sunny days.
We grow old,
and all we know
is memory.
Like a dumb snail
we listen to the sky.
Our passions
break through to
the warmth
and the breathing
of a fresh, green feeling.
AFTERNOON FEELING
An afternoon feeling
brought into the light
the instant I looked
into your eyes.
A need to continue,
minute overlapping minute,
no logic to it—
to focus an obscure desire.
DANDELION WISHES
You laugh
with the thunder
circling the moon
You see
backlit cows hanging
upside down in the sky
You ride the wind
making dandelion
wishes
You try to flee
but return, sealed
in a green cell layer
ALWAYS
/all ways young
All ways high
Maid of earth
made of sky
You with starlight eyes
I with voodoo ways
I do what I do
to be with you
FOURWINDS
At the fourwinds
we enter the bourn
that true friendship is
The table tilts—
we orbit the sun and moon
body, voice and mind
bright, blesséd, kind
But this is bubblegum
you complain,
where are the dirty feet
the fish floating belly up?
The table tilts—
no killing the monkey in the hall
or the worm in the rotten wall
Now mild and restrained
now wild and unreined
we talk, and our words make light
SO
Even we,
even so
The candle burns
the candle burns
