YEARNING FOR GRACE

YEARNING FOR GRACE

i.

We tell

  the stories

that have been 
told us

We touch

  in ways

we have been

  touched

Argument

  and pain

recycled

or repurposed

  and refined

We need not master

  anything but love

and in that

being a student

will suffice.

ii.

I’ve been assigned

  dumpster duty

My job to hose

  the fucker down

I’ll probably

  flood the alley

Clumsy Student

iii.

Yearning for grace

  hoping for redemption

As plants turning

  toward the Sun.

RW

Seattle

05.30.2019

WERE WE TO BE (for Greta Thunberg)

                                                                 (graphic:  Marec ((404))

WERE WE TO BE

Doctors of our lives

We would focus our fierce intelligence

on the only balm for our fearful existence –

          Love

          for all

          creation.

We would find

our daily dose

of good sense to offset

the nonsense

          that

          merchants

          power-mad

                    &

          false-do-gooders

peddle

where e’er we roam.

We would have eyes to see

dog on her haunches

sharing a joke with hummingbird

         

          under

          blue sky

          quarter moon

          beautiful dream morning.

Each moment passes

precious

connect the dots

connect

the

dots

worlds

will

end

but

not just yet.

          Amen.

RW

Seattle

05.29.2019

         

A Short History, Beginning to End

 (photo:  NASA,  Neutron Star in the Far Magellanic Cloud)

1.

God

in all

God’s

glory

Explosive

ragged

aflame

A raging expansion

extending and delineating

Everything.

2.

Human Beings

came lumbering

onto the scene

baring our teeth

and scratching

at parasites

&

Here we are

straddling cyberspace

baring our teeth

and scratching

at scabs.

3.

Bloody Century - the 20^th

Red ants

living

in a

red ant hill

given the gift of fire

We burnt

some cities

to a crisp

and all the people

in them.

4.

Lumbering we were

and lumbering still

we crashed the 21^st

turned the jets up high

and ruined dinner for everyone

Then we left the kitchen

with the oven on.

5.

Billionaires in rocket ships

where they gonna’ run to?

God

in all

God’s

glory

mouth

wide

swallows a fly

Perhaps

we’ll

die.

RW

Seattle

05.11.2019

DAS KAPITAL ( Nap Time at Nordie's)

Taking a break

in an easy chair

in a nicely appointed

luxury department store

Surrounded by

glass and stainless steel

purses shoes

wallets pens

watches

diamonds & emeralds

rings brooches chains.

Breathing cool

odorless air

relaxed

slipping away

falling in falling out.

Chimes subtle

in the

deep background

chimes

in the

deep

chimes.

Body temp dips

just a bit

slow pulse slows

jaw relaxes

head

drops

&

jerks

drops

&

jerks

eyes slide open

scan watery surroundings

murmurs like a helpful lift

from a fellow diver

seem to bring me up

to surface

where rheostats hum.

Eyes flutter

and close again.

We’ll go home soon…

This

while

on the wine dark sea

an eighteen story

     ocean liner

slowly

slowly

capsizes.

RW

Seattle

05.02.2019

HARVEST SPINNING

(photo:  The Bone Room - Male Skull India - $2,500)

HARVEST SPINNING

There are villages where poor people sell their bones and body parts to be collected after death.

The family eats; the rent is paid; Monsanto gets its cut.

This is not a pawn, not a loan.  No tickets or i.o.u.’s are issued or signed.  There is no redemption but collection.

Sometimes, before the body’s last breath, the collectors arrive and man-handle the soon to be or not to be out to the jungle, alley, basement, warehouse bathtub for a careful harvest of bones and parts.

The money doesn’t last.

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WIFE GONE SPINNING

spinning

money gone spinning

wife gone spinning

family hungry

spinning

money gone

rent not paid

spinning

money gone

shame

wife gone spinning

spinning

hanged

and

spinning

spinning from the spinning

ceiling fan.

RW

Seattle

05.01.2019

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For the Internationale sung by Billy Bragg:  The Internationale