Enchantress of Water

to be Yesterday’s guests
on all fours
ascending the days of Spring
and her shade
of Jaguar and company

to share Nature’s pipe
with the glyphs of gladiators’ rules
the calculator of Heaven
the battalion of pillars in their allegiance to Rain
the spirits enslav’d by the great pool

all swaddl’d by Land’s mane
with Today’s bloodkin

Contemplation

over half a century ‘tis been
since to th’ unknown
Time first spoke
in the vocabulary of tears

and now Heaven’s Brew crashes
o’er my lodgings
into the blueness
stirring ever brightly
‘twixt th’ Eastern Valley

and tears are spoken again
on Time’s wake
binding myself with old vows         
will ever I keep?

Volcano

open wounds

be it once a year
or once an eon

so long as my veins
swell and burst and overflow

so too will th’ Earth
taste th’ air

so too will other life
be bless’d with breath