dire draft pleading
life celebrating a life
quick draw dodging

hallelujah man
hollow heart holding hallowed
how now hard hour

outside the diamond
loosing our love together
inside the blue flame

wisdom's gate:
how did we survive;
we ate the weeds growing outside the gate

sit still for a bit
let pain or pleasure enter
nicely either way

blowing out forth right
standing soundly I me my
illegitimate

an upper deck rail
parallel ménage à trois
kept wild on the wane

theirs was nothing about that--
his was hers--beyond listening

sometimes precious does
darkly showing forswearing
vows are inventions

wandering gather
a pointed contradiction
falling out of this

never to begin
nor end either what sorrow
these eyes wash out