The night was slippery, glass windows squeaked,
fingertips slipped off skin. Humidity paused
between layers of still air, only to slowly leak through.
The house was raised up on stilts
to avoid flooding in the rainy season,
even so, snakes nested beneath the raised floor.
We turned off the bedside lamp,
a mask of darkness dropped from ceiling to floor,
our breathing synchronized,
though we did not speak,
We were both trying hard
to read each other’s thoughts.
We had made love earlier.
the bed sheets were damp with a tepid fever.
Our passion had been uncentered,
it felt off kilter, tilting into a passionate indifference,
an invisible wall had risen between us,
even as our bodies curled and coiled.
It was cool on the veranda,
the dawn had climbed above the trees,
the jungle was falling asleep at last.
An old Thai lady rang her bicycle bell,
offering small sticky breakfast cakes.
I was hungry, you were not.
Later, I left for the night train to Bangkok,
when I returned
our house on stilts had walked away.
Categories:
uncentered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Glutted left-brain information media
actively hope to understand
Why does emotional intelligence
speak to egocentric concerns
of mortality and discomforting toxic defeat,
loss and difficult win/lose everyday choices
in a calming voice for unself-conscious contentment?
What is this ZeroSoul content of contentment
to feel we are right
sentient full beings
here co-present
within eternal now relationships of compassion
affiliating on this Earth
in our co-passioning interdependent webs
of health co-operative
wealthy co-investment?
Without mortal loss,
suffering;
Without unwanted walls between us
and them.
Why does emotional unintelligence
speak too loudly
intolerantly
of Earth-UnCentered constant concerns
of inhumane immortal overpowers
and toxic LoseHealth/LoseWealth
RightWing left-brain dominant choices
in cacophonous dissonant voices
claiming no rights to contentedly prefer
healthier multicultures
of win/win emotional intelligence?
Categories:
uncentered, community, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Circumferences. Blame not a nothing. Understand an ideology of a pickled pair. Falling twigs are pallor. Lips altering. It means a snake talks. Ceaseless chatter of a convertible fish bowl with or without leaves. Directional flow is neither a bud or a raindrop and pallets of ink is an injustice not an injunction. Fly then to the inner realms and let loose. Unless a dipper diver comes past. Interesting but not inverted. Uncentered circulars and unidentifiable shape of a small portion of a pen. In a cart. Cantering. Dare to tango with a cast iron suitcase? Fish in a shark infested estuary with a dingy? That the things the time takes. *** cow cheese cake *** cow cantering crêpes. *** ha is a bucket a knife deal then? *** z. Superficial slug man. Xxxx artificially *** coniferous z.
Categories:
uncentered, arabic, baseball,
Form: I do not know?