all one
internet frequency
coaxial joining
back to the Garden
no barriers
between leaf and lens
every access
to skin and bone and flavor
nothing too precious
to be kept in plastic
or steel vault
stone and earth
protectors
rain and sun
wash and burn away sin
days of neon and nylon
like fine china
cracked and useful
mementos
grimy raw festering world
with compost and warning labels
avoid the tree of knowledge
keep something better
coded for pleasure
tattooed by teeth
one scream
heard around fault lines
no mistakes
just feeling joy and pain
messages relayed
all one
walk with me
I think I heard you mumble
something the wind
carried away
racing final sunlight
collections we will keep
I have a thousand questions
just for you
they’ll have to fade
kicking stones as we walk
less to say, more to see
I’ve been plucked and laid
across a world of
saccharine beauty
and cool intellect
my feet don’t touch
the ground here
I miss the pretense
of a better tomorrow
and castles of music
there’s no guarding the heart
when the mind’s at play
reclaiming breath
we should have gathered
our things
– our thoughts –
before the tooth fairy’s twine
ran too low on the spool
but there’s always such a rush
of fools
squandering the sweet first air of morning
breathe and move as one
it’s your body and mind to keep
we should reclaim
our reins
– our thoughts –
before we forget our hauntings
growing tired in spirit
but there’s always more
to explore
setting alight a wanton heart
musty
shuffling through musty lace
was a bad idea for a blue Monday
so many tears
my stomach muscles ached
but there were smiles
captured
in tattered scrapbooks
rife with tickets and pressed flowers
I could not be swayed
from trying to hold something lovely
why did I keep the rusty rivet
next to the dancer in the box
velvet and chrome remembrances
folded next to faded streamers
carrying memory whiffs of cake
I have no gimmick
nothing for you to remember me by
unless you see me as a quilt
pieced together
from all I’ve touched
The Word Rummager 