Who walks footless

starlit ocean
sings a song on this keyboard
can you see her
pinned to the night

love is everyone's eyes
weeping
like this
your very last breath
sings

no one wears this flowing diaphanous gown of mirrored moon glow

Woven of murmuring echoes and reflections of memories

Scratchy recordings of old songs bouncing down the lane of shadows and across the still waters

Pale and dusty light shimmering through the morning mist...

Always clearer than clear 

That there is nothing to be caught in moonlight 

Not even the moon.... 

painting rainbows on the window will not hide the storm within

or without

where is the line between your face and its reflection

this tsunami has always been hanging over your heart

glass is liquid tears

love waits to catch a glimpse of itself

in your eyes

sun and moon slide across the heavens

that ruptured 

when eternity collided with time

in torrential rain

sky opens

rainbows and diamonds

slide into your liquid eyes

and you are never quite the same

soaring with the pigeons

and the lapping waves

reflecting the last echo of sunset

moon at my back

surround sound

of deepening shadows

never more or less

than this last kiss

moon and mountain float on the waters

we are the shimmering of this floating world

Trying to capture the space between nothing and everything 

Joy merged with sorrow and she never looked back

Dancing on a feather 

Suspended as nothingness....

Caressed from the inside 

outside

Seamless transparent being ness 

sides and middle melted...

Walking unabashedly naked

In love as love through love... 

Stunned at this imaginary thingness....

Clouds forming and dissolving

There is no backdrop of sky

Waves crashing and receding 

There is no underlying sea...

Where is the space between the breath and the song?

Between the lips and the kiss?

Between the wind and your cheek?

Between the thing and the word?

Silence sings itself

Looking out

Looking in

All apparent thingness

Reflections in your eyes

Echoes have no source

Rippling freely

River sees its beauty

Through your eyes

Hears it’s song

Through your lips

Love recognizes itself

In your tears

And weeps 

Endless sky slides over endless mountains 

Vastness echoes your aloneness

You long for a place

To rest

Darkness streams through you

Starlight flows through you

Illuminates the empty ground

As you fall through

A million nights

A million days

A million reminders

It may dawn all at once or over time 

Either now 

Or when you’re dying 

But wait

You are already dying aren’t you?

That all that effort and achievement never led anywhere...

Death still comes

And life was always doing itself...

All a wondrous magical show of light and shadow 

And color...

Leaves sprouting and falling 

Wind...

Suns and moons sliding across the vault of sky 

All unimaginably breath taking 

Even the arguments 

And illness

Love and love lost....

All the stories ever told all this symphony of perception .... flowing be-jeweled mirror allowing awareness to be aware of being aware....

Alive and knowing it

And knowing you know...

You may weep 

And laugh 

And I will always love you  

Sky shadows fall into sky
Surround sound of flowers blooming
She slips quietly quietly
Softly into petals falling
Leaves and crumpled newspapers
Swirling down the sidewalk
A poet’s song 

flipping through the book of love

words held in the bottom of your hand

snapshots of the river

laid out to dry on the sand

walking barefoot on the banks

slipping in the wet ink

falling in love with the falling

learning the river song

rolling your r's

like a true Spaniard

stillness of sky-less sky

half hitch moon shimmering 

tinsel on melting snow

smell of young earth

in desert spring

you can hear seeds sprouting

and old limbs stretching

down

to kiss them

wind beckons

and you follow

wisp of cloud

swallows the moon

the wind

and you

winged lace sky

woven by tall sweeping branches

sunlight filters through my breath 

awe paints this garden

suspended as silence reaching through

bottomless earth and unending sky

the heavens split when time lost its footprint

on the vast unending sea

beauty and love entered the dream-scape

when the shadows of night fell through themselves

into this a-temporal brilliance

that had been ignored

pigeons swoop into the air

caress the lake in ever widening circles of joy

spiraling galaxies of wind blown songs

through these lips

these words

that seem to catch the sunlight

like the moon

kissing itself on the water

my reflection vanishes

merges into infinite

soaring 

lace winged 

sky

sky above

sky below

the sound of clouds

flowering

dust devils swirl through my reflection

the road is a mirage

I dance

in these ancient winds

time lost its shadow

falling through a photograph

of wind

mist hangs heavy on bent grasses

song of morning dreams...

where is the edge of heaven

where does the mountain slice the sea?

no one's hands untied the stars

no one's tears unleashed the seas

who knows seas and stars and mountains

swirl only in thought?

who walks 

footless?

bathing in wrap-around star showers

mountain hides in golden clouds

marrow of love swallows sun's flame 

here, you enter the song

losing your footfalls

in the echo of night

gaze into the darkness

and see your reflection

mystery embraces itself

flies through the center of the flower

petals falling

wind breathing

color fading

lips moving

soundless

no heaven

to soar in

no earth

to swallow you

no vast unending seas

to sail upon

no secret harbor from the storm

it is upon you

always

Behind a wall of fear lies the universe...

Waiting for a kiss

Everywhere I look I see love 

Fall into it 

And swoon in your fathomless beauty

First bell echoes across the lake

Pigeons race to circle their reflection...

Placeless morning

What is left of night?

Memories hide in the shadows

Invisible dancers slide across the road

As day passes

High above

The heavens open their winged doors

And swallow the lover’s shadows

You can feel their hearts beating madly 

It is your heart trembling

In love with the heartbeat of day 

And night

The taste of taste inseparable from this exquisite flavor

Delighted at my own delight

Amazed at this amazement
This sublime love of love 

Layers of liquid light
The shimmer of butterfly wings
A million petals
Falling


Moonlight dances in the empty garden
Her silent song of sighs
Flows
She pours music
Through your window
And waits
To gaze at her reflection
Through your liquid eyes 

Winter sifts through autumn’s end

Trees clothed in midnight weave empty skies

Shadows bathe in this cup of moonlight 

Pouring echoes into the river of night

No one stands at the edge of memory

As it falls across my path

Traces of time appear

And disappear

Between the rhythm of everything

And nothing

We dance 

Clouds enhance the view of moon

Reflections kiss themselves through your eyes

Meeting you

Loving you

Missing you

You are a sonata running barefoot through this mind stream 

time fell at my feet

I watched its shadow

swirl across the path

evening in the garden

last crow

from across the lake 

temple bells

surround sound of past and future

erase the inscription of echoes

written on water

a fairy tale of wonder

slides into whirlpools

and out

water into water

there never was a girl

waiting for the night

to hide her tears

waiting for moon-glow

to find them

tears

the river of heaven

how beautiful 

the face of love

mountains

memories

clouds

falling

deep green pines fringe the shadows

nothing is hidden

nothing is revealed

where did you lose your heart

was it ever yours?

or was it

a forgotten flower

blooming?

a thousand years of rain

and snow

and wind

and tears

and blood

fallen leaves 

and petals

and sunsets

carpet the ground

the rush of stillness

sings through it all

it cannot be trampled

or held

it cannot be concocted

by chanting spells

or reading books

or sitting for a thousand years

you cannot wait for it

or gain it

or throw it away

knowing this

is the dawn of love

drifting wind and clouds

I fall through autumn

I fall through sky

sky falls through sky

I fall through clouds

clouds fall though clouds

I fall through wind

wind falls through wind

I fall through my reflection

of this shimmering mirror

there are no sides

nor middle

as water falls though water

ripples fall though ripples

my echo in the night

falls through itself

I fall though light 

light falls through light

I fall though space 

space falls through space

through mountains

through canyons

through tall trees reaching up

though deep roots reaching down

through vast seas leading nowhere

through all directions

falling up

falling down

the falling falls through the falling

the dance falls through the dance

in no thing-ness

the sky and my hair have turned white

there are no tracks

and no one to be lost or found

in winter's snow