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A Prayer For Haiti

I pray dear God to grant reprieve
To Haitian brother in dire need.
Spirit, instill a strength divine,
Transform his heart as loving Guide.
May healing hands inspire hope,
May grace and love our prayers provoke.
Raise Haiti’s head, with conqu’ring faith
You will prevail, you will prevail. Amen.

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The Runner

Amidst the fog I toil while the world beyond still sleeps
Except to the eyes of the occasional streetlight
I feel invariably invisible--
I am no longer human.
Running
A creature chasing for the sake of necessity
Seeking to satiate the hunger every being’s belly was born with
But few will ever will themselves to satisfy--
I am human again. 
Running
My heels moan with every blow of the unforgiving pavement 
Angrily echoing against the narrowing walls of sneering pines
Begging the Man in me to succumb
		My will flickers thin.
Void of breath to feed the fire
		My will flickers thin.
The teeth of winter gnashing through
		My will flickers thin.
Then for an instant-- a flint of consciousness rekindles
		My will flickers thin but still my will it flickers!
			Running
With grinding ribs and gritted teeth I dig beneath my anguish
Suddenly my instincts roar and war against my weakness
Like famished wolves to flesh I hasten
And vanish into night.

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Cold Feet

There are days into the sea I step,
Ever mindful of its depth.
Against my shins the froth enchants,
til intrigue tugs me to advance.	
While writhing weeds like serpents’ snare
climb in deceit my skin--yet fair--
Rarely do I tread chest high
and never has she scaled my eyes.
Ever mindful, submissive sigh
Most of the time my feet stay dry.

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Piece of Mine and Mind

Trembling bones. Arrested jaw. 
  Like bolt advised to keep affixed
Utter silence as I gape across the starry ceiling
  Thunder crawling  closer.
And I, a child, 
Abashed in her bosom, dizzy--
under opal sheets of serenity 
                               fraying			
                   ripped
unraveled.

Against the pane, the bough raps incessantly
  A talon scraping at my spine
Amid dissonance, her eyes a soothing refuge 
  Sails in squalls unwavered. 
Then as abrupt as lightning struck
  Piece of  mine and mind 
Acquiesce and into sleep
  I slip beyond remorse.

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The River

Cracks of corral emerged between the Earth’s proud crown of evergreen
Gleaming down on grateful Father whose arms in bloom embraced his Daughter
Moon upon Moon in prayer he spent that God would grant his heart’s content
Now all his dreams no longer dreams but infant in his arms serene
They traveled on til trails converged and River’s roar ahead was heard 
Then there upon the shore was laid, a bless’ed barge of birchbark made.

From the River’s roots they rowed, embarking on a fate unknown
Wide-eyed Child soothed by Father’s song amidst echoes of the Wild’s call
Sweetly metered by sweeping oar he told her tales of life before
The great divide of Earth and Sky, of Land and Sea, of Day and Night 
How God by grace named each creature each fish and fowl each fir and fur
Then in His hands mixed clay and sand, the gift of life breathed into Man.

Between each bend dear Daughter grew and saw the world from worn canoe
Floating onward until the day she traded hums and howls to say
Father, Father, I understand! With lamb and wolf we share this land!
How scattered seed grew into tree and tree we carved for pole to feed
Father you’ve grown and given me your faith and love so I might be
Someday just like you a Giver on the road of life, the River!

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A Drink Aboard My Vessel

I kept at the bar 'til close
Swore I’d seen all the world could show me.
Enough strangers’ unfinished drinks
to assume the fate of those departed
On the rim is fixed, abandoned lips
still dampened with desire.
The others lie cast aside
And me, myself I cling to my mine.

In haste in lust they flee
Into the night into the sea
beneath he lies above
gently rolling on—
Thrusts of silent rage ensue
however brief forever true
Salted bodies like raft entwined
And me, myself I cling to my mine.

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The Prayer For My Love Away

Tonight, O Lord, I pray you bless
My Love Away with peaceful rest,
And if Thy will, with grace adorn
Her gentle sleep with dreams til morn,
Then through the day, with strength provide
My Love Away, And safely guide
Her life until we’re joined together
And then our prayers we’ll share forever. Amen.

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The Sword of Fate and Faith

In the stone awaits the Sword of Fate.
I, the master crawling,
On belly famished with weathered spine, 
My fork’ed tongue frothing in infidelity, 
Muttering murmurs of motive,
The sins I sinned sinners would shutter/
Still, utterly desperate I seize the dagger,
Death or Life must come!
The scales leveled and my scales were lifted,
I saw what once was and is and would become…

In my hands I held the Sword of Faith. 
Alive-- It and I! 
In spite of countless times I turned my coat to hide,
My chest a closet of bones and burdens.
Convenience became cruel and I chose not to confide,
A choking pride, washed down with wine and wallow,
Hollowed rind where the hat of hope once hung,
Now forged from the dust rung upon rung,
A ladder undeserving!
Where mortal man meets outstretched hand,
In faith I will abide, in God I will confide!

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The Usual

She brushes against my back and floats on past,
Like fireflies in fog.
My restless eyes return to Sam
Deliberate but precise, 
He mixes my “usual,” the next never less than the last,
I sip and stir, sip and stir, ice in gin enduring.
Sitting there.

In elegance enthralled, as if pressing fire
To her lips were innate as breath.
No one like her wakes up alone
My gaze crashesintohers 
Her eyes fly through me then through the thrsehold.
Thoughts wrestle. I stand to relieve myself.

The passing haze her sinewy silhouette swaying
Insisting I speak even if entirely incoherent
The slightest inkling realized would quake the earth
Then swiftly plunge us to pleasured perish
Forever damned in whimsical desire
Down down down we fly now oh no tis only I

Stumbling through the exit.

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The Homecoming

The wind’s warmth gently breathes into my veins
As the road winds through a familiar passage.
Across the dusk canvas a welcoming aura emanates
From the city and streets I once called my own, 
This is my homecoming.

Smiles dawning on the mouths of friends in waiting
And mine, mine as well as I know the joys to come…
Where trails converge tales emerge, old new alike
Cheers to you you you, round round round.

Lives change change, love weight work
Lost gained gained lost, yet no one’s really changed.
The old refrain sang and sung, off key in harmony
Midnight wick sits searing, behind the window pane.

From the town I loved, the road winds away
My gaze now content on faces in the dashboard
Smiles dawning on the mouths of family waiting
And mine, mine as well as I know the joys to come…
This is my homecoming.