A necessary game
Children

Play
Amongst the spiraling activities of safe adults

Later
Play is not 
For family, cult, party, corporation, science or religion
Or for any idea or other person

Play is a necessary game
Using my capacity
To make a safe place
For me alone
Amongst the spiraling hot dust

To play

Intelligence is
Noticing you
In my play

Courage is 
Using my capacity
To make a safe place
For each of us together
Amongst the spiraling hot dust

To play

A necessary game
Children

Heal
Amongst the spiraling activities of safe adults

Later
Healing is not for
Family, cult, party, corporation science or religion
Or for any idea or other person

Healing is a necessary game
Using my capacity
To make a safe place
For me alone
Amongst the spiraling hot dust

To heal

Intelligence is
Noticing you
In my healing

Courage is 
Using my capacity
To make a safe place
For each of us together
Amongst the spiraling hot dust

To heal

In loving memory of Grey Six.

Grey

He leaves too soon

But not before finding April

She cannot breathe

When winter’s cruel breath

Turns her spring to waste

His still young promise into ice

Romance is not lost

But lives in her earth

Becoming who she becomes

Changing who she changes

The quickening of love

God’s only answer to

Why?

Theory Of Memory

(11-30-08)

Memory is DNA

Creating flesh

Then becoming dust

The night’s song clings

Earth spins it off
Into thinner air

Warmed by fusion

As what matters

Vibrates in each day’s

New music

Humans as others someday

Will come and go

No one left behind

Each one of us

Gradually loosing mass

Lifting off one day

In new lighter roles

Dust gas and memory

Spinning off into space

Spreading waves and spinning particles

Lifting off

Some mathematician

Could plot the course

If they happened to notice

If there were any left

Listening and if

There was a theory

Of memory lifting off

Memory tolerating

Cold and heat and low pressure

With lots of

Time