A Goodbye Kiss

I stood motionless On the hull of lost dreams In the aftermath of what my soul unclaimed  When our lips locked for a mere fraction of time Opening counterclockwise motion In my regression to the sanctum of memory Before I laid you down on a lifeboat Drifting towards an eternity

Mirror

What flips honesty And dissects imperfection In the unpretty And the quasi-beautiful Nevertheless bosom comrade to the aspirants Fabricating an oasis in reflection From a mirage of a pipe dream

Bison

In the maquillage of strange beauty Of lush thickets of wooly fiber Rests a creature top-heavy and hind-lean Journeying the vast open plains In the echo of the star spangled banner A distant relative to the buffalo A quadru-pedal that was crafted by forces of evolution And rose from the obscurity of near extinction Symbolized …

A Christmas Carol

In a hymn of love In a psalm of nativity There rests the glory of incarnation - one descent to mortality Disguised in the traditions and rituals Of mortal making Where the remembrance Of a man born out of wedlock Echoes far in to time, in the nuptials Of heaven and earth

Hope

On a lonely candle thread A corona of blue light Was outlit by a blazing orange flame And in that fate-sketched moment of calling The past was ecclipsed by the future In the pledge of the unrisen sun

Santa Claus

In the deepest heart of the Tundra Rests a seasonal workshop and home Where resides a mortal, typified by his guffaw And defined by folklore and obesity A man, who was beatified and canonized In the tradition of miracles, but perpetuates in fact and myth A practitioner of the universal craft of love Where the …