Spiritual

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Nopales for Breakfast

My grandmother is Preparing the Nopales In the kitchen-- It is dawn. As she cuts Away at the Flesh of The ancient Plant, Stripping it Of its thorns, I see Our future, Raza:

Singing Lark

Trapped, caged, clipped wings, by the window, looking out, into the sky, through the bars, home, a stones drop away, merciless.

A Celebrant's Song

A cheerful ditty designed by the drying of too-long-ago-cried tears. That kind of thing.

Sever Your Ceaseless Sighs

The protest psalm of a dancer that dares not to be degraded by any compulsory strangulation of worry.

the sky

why are there no answers in the sky

God on trial

He is all forgiving, yet the stains of blood shed in his name, for him, build into an inferno of death, a holocaust. Peace, seems to blur into uncertainly, at the declaration that our god,

The Sickness of Man (a letter of forgiveness)

Dear god, The sickness of man is all around me, I can sense it, smell it, down to the darkness of their souls, where their livers are full of black tar, a result of living like a rock star,

Automatic Poem

Inspired by Steve Button I thought I'd write a quick automatic poem. Don't know if it's any good. It's kind of Nursery Rhymey.

The fall of Lucifer ( letter of Redemption)

“The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.” And so it was,
Gold cherry

I Thought of Jack Kerouac

I thought of Jack Kerouac Today as I entered The public library Eyes down Rolling Rolling Along the tiled floors Pen warm Tucked between My ear and skull