Crossing

Triumphs in love and pain

Wandering forever, home again.

History of a river flowing

Stratas of lost emotion

Across primeval waters,

Passage of Angels go.

The land at sunset gleams

Desert rocks on glowing cliffs 

River ancient, eternal flow

Portfolio of petroglyph dreams

Forgotten tribes and fossil trees

Green Gingko Biloba leaves.

Triumphs in love and pain

Wandering forever, home again.

Edge of Glory

Sky path

River road

Whale cotton pods

Sky dome drifting on the rain.

Shining chorus, 

Silent plateaus

Cities afloat, ocean of blue

Slow migration

Morphology of clouds

White buffalo on a cobalt plain. 

There Were Dinosaurs Here Once

There were dinosaurs here once, 

When earth was young & green  

Jungle ferns along Triassic seas;

Now just a roaming wind

Tilted fence post fields 

Empty sky with several clouds;

Deep ocean mountains loom 

Tidalwave wall, white foam cap horizon.

This is lonely place 

A long story without breath yet lacking punctuation.

Orange cones guard late model trucks

Tired work crews fix broken roads

A brutal sun beats on tired hills

A skinny deer eats faded grass

Mute witness to highway marker 59.

These are vanishing points of history

Forgotten woodbore termite tracks through time 

Insignia of nature's nonsyllabic passage 

Petrified eternity, frozen centuries domino stacked in line.

Wyoming

Thru whistling windshield

Panorama? Monotone yield.

Wide grass plain

Bumpy two lane

Powder dust skies 

Rising wind sighs

Old West stills

Gentle rolling hills

Black dot trees.

Before modern gleam

Lost primeval dream:

Beneath ancient seas

Slumber many dinosaur

Trex, duckbill, brachiosaur.

Under land the government owns

Lie fallen, silent & mighty bones.

Montana

Wealth of Montana hills

Grey-ribbon roads stray-dog chase winding grass-snake streams.

Ranch hands with copper skin

Old men in cowboy shirts,

Worn boots, denim jeans.

Houses and barns

Tiny in valley vistas

Cows and horses

Plastic toys that move.

Evergreen mountains

Trees upon trees

Roadside bright,

Far horizon, faded black;

Then,

Deep ocean, white studded,

Pacific BLUE.

Culmination of Soul

Tblisi.

A distant city I've studied 

But never been.

There are so many things

I simply do not know.

The isle of Malta is carved from stone

On a beach in Crete, 

Evening waves come in.

As I walk beneath these trees

There is a cool breeze 

Hint of thunderstorm.

In Hawaii, a sponge centuries old,

Cincinnati,

A gorilla falls so a boy may live.

Despite complexity of world,

I sense a culmination of soul,

Rhythm of tides, ebb and flow

At the Port of Baku 

Big ships come, then they go.

My daughter lies on the couch

Her sigh from a darkened room,

She watches television.

Been wandering forever

Texas and Virginia, Washington

Kansas and Qatar, 

Washington again.

Show me that open road

Turtleshell thoughts in a Uhaul truck

Big Sur ocean for my Kerouac soul.

Rooftop Summer

There was a 9 day isolation

Inconstancy of a Francesca soul.

Across the morning valley 

Parthenon glowed.

Small room in a tired flat,

Wandered the balcony 

Wine bottle grip

Statue of liberty disrobed,

Hot nights in Italy.

Half read books

Fresh bread, hunks of cheese.

There was a small bird who sang outside the window.