13/09/2015

Inside The Shell

In opalescent light I sit inside
A wall around me of my own making
If I put my ear to the shell
I hear an ocean outside
A strange current on the surface
Washing over words and dreams
Photo flotsam, memory jettison
Passing ephemera of a life
Pearly surface reflecting
All superficiality spiraling away

Here, in this quiet amphitheatre
I am unshackled
From the tides of pandemonium
Quietly sustained
Within the cathedral shapes
Inside the shell




05/09/2015

Falling in all Directions

Each iota
Not more than a jot
A dust mote
Suspended
Falling in all directions

The timeless drift
A space jellyfish
On the currents
Of photons
Sailing the air
Of a sunlit room

While the room
Spins on the earth's axis
A volta waltz
Around the sun
Bright star
Chandelier bauble
In a galactic ballroom
Dancing out across
The universe
Falling in all directions

Expanding frequencies
Vibrating out to a slow red glow
Or high pitched blues
Quick, quick, slow
Is how it goes
Each retinal flash
A synaptic gasp of realization
And in its brilliance
Life plays out
Refracted through an invisible prism
Of quantum rhythms

In the corner of my eye
Light, falling in all directions
Catches a dust mote
Dreaming in the late, lazy sun
Of an autumn room