Neon Twilight

You’re destined to see

Your whole life go past you 

In a flash, and you’re still 

 

Green behind the ears 

Inert as ever, waiting 

For the sign saying look 

 

Both ways before crossing 

Against the last red light. 

 

 

 

After Heraclitus, Naturally

Who said

 

It’s natural man knows 

His own mind and knows  

He’s sane—woe to him 

Who doesn’t know

 

He's insane.

 

 

 

 

 

Healer Of Desperate Souls

--for Eleni 

Of that precious 

Small pocket of air 

You carry with you 

Like a talisman against all 

The ills of the world 

That descend upon us 

Everywhere, tell me again 

And again how it is 

Everything it touches 

Dispels untold depression 

And despair! 

 

 

 

So Far, So Good

Imagine 

Beyond this growing 

Poverty of words nothing 

But silence and you trying 

 

To explain how 

You came so close 

To untying your tongue 

Again and again.

 

Hope Dies Last (Seize The Day)

Easy does it, hombre— 

Having never lived 

 

Fully, clearly you could still 

Die just as easily, say 

 

Tomorrow, if not today.