Twisted Tree

I thank the twisted tree
whose leaning trunk and
twining limbs have endured

Love real?

Countless journal entries

Dating back to a time

That easy kind of love

It was comfortable from the start

You know?

What If

The entire universe is driven by one holy power,
GOD, before whom the world is made to cower.

Nights and swords (94)

I want you more,

when I don’t want you anymore.

Beside Myself

I did not hear you, coming in
As silent as a prayer said
But here beside myself, your skin,
Unwinding troth, like silken thread

For Forgetters

On the bull moose stump, pounding
fist raised, voice raised, bellowing
the cause left behind like a war
peace time agitators sinking…

Consumption

where it touches you

the cinder spray purifies you with a spark of pain

and life, the flinch -

the igneous glow,

compelled upward into the dark

Two Men

Let us talk about the fisherman and the executive.
Neighbours, perhaps from the same kampung. 
For long, the former has not been seen at work…

In the water

In the sway of leaves

In the ant that hollows out

Heart Gecko

In every cell of me
There rests an artful gecko
That crawls and flows and beats
Through every open space

Untitled Haiku 6

Swindlers at breakfast 
Buttering coarse words onto their 
slippery deeds