Please and Thank You

Please and Thank You

Born hungry, the colicky one,

My wordless wails, importunate, demanding,

Til words make way to questions

Puzzles, propositions, longings,

The inquisitive one…

Further days pour their way to crashing waves

Upon riotous rocks, comings and goings,

Coupe de coeur, coupe de’etat, risings and fallings,

The imploring one, crying out,

Night time echoes, help, help-

The sometimes pathetic one…

Til now, these moments, this breath.

Not so much pulling in, gasping, grasping

But letting go, exhaling, slowly releasing,

Sighing, dying…

The grateful one.

Feathers

- Feathers -

        

      In the brush, the fingers of the boy's-
                                                     ...poised...

         A flutter, a rush.

                The point, the release,the thrust;

                             A scatter, a thud;

                     The rustle.     The quiver.     The hush.

                                                         

Moonwalk

Moonwalk: A Rubric

It takes a lively step and a sure foot

And a certain stepping backwards, to move forward,

Uncovering truths both known and unknown.

My stories, your stories, world stories,

Told and untold

Like tendrils pulling, like a quivering bow

Bending flexing

Moving to a song heard so long ago

Uncovering truths both known and unknown.

Gliding, sliding, toe-heel, toe-heel, detail, detail,

Spoken and unspoken

Glancing outward, curling inward,

One fluid sweeping motion,

Revealing truths, both known and unknown.

A voyage of discovery, charting the uncharted,

across an open sea-

From the Cape of Good Hope, to the Sea of Tranquility,

Or is it just the lifting of a Cloak of Invisibility?

Uncovering truths, both known and unknown.