Category Archives: Uncategorized
Campfire in the woods, east of Eden
Guard the secret
star you stole.
Hide it dark
within your eye.
Wait for dawn,
smoke will teach
you how to tell
the lovely lie.
Let’s back up to that day
When plum-sucked juice
dizzied the man
who dared to be gladdened
by you in your youth
Contemplative
Your splendid evanescence
Is an icon of the Lord –
your coming and going,
the fact that you exist.
Where did you learn to
to walk through walls?
Who taught the vanishing
to raise the dead?
Sentimental ditty about a rock-solid someone
I thought I’d visit my neighbor
instead of myself. I’d seen him sitting there
many a time, in the window,
bent over his lunch. And yes,
Come in, he said, I see you go by.
What’s gone by in him is 92 years,
51 of which were spent playing
trombone
in the Utrecht City Orchestra.
In the war they stuck him
in a German munitions factory,
where the Poles and the French and the Dutch
were all saboteurs,
and the boss, a German,
was a pretty good guy.
This neighbor, Piet,
has pictures of the boss’s daughter.
He’s lived in that house for 60 years.
He’s got an open leg
and can’t go out. But he’s
sweet as sunshine,
shining while we make our way.
Garage at the station
On seeing, without the aid of John or Lear
I uncoupled the two eye-beams
and sent them in search of what
I did not know. This proved to be
where people have their lunch,
corners with not a lot,
and rafter bats.
PIN codes were not my concern,
nor were people in
various states of undress.
I’d liked to have seen, however,
the insides of the latter,
or rather,
the insides of their insides.
But alas! My beams are bogus beams
whose insights couldn’t be flatter.
You come unbeckoned
Sunlight spilling
warming the room
what clouds there were
miles to the west
Tree people
Utrecht Journal 