Boxed Sand Bento –

Earth tones, smart phones, summer memoirs in stones cast

Stereo hums – beat of drums – life’s rhythm’s moving…  fast

The hours we take, we make, we lose then find

Relations forged in craggy gorge, not thru space nor thyme

Waves flip & curl – masts unfurl – deep inside our mind

seeking serenity, stoic genetically, ripping out the vine 

Snarled bowed bent broken, yank the insides out – 

Coursing through sinewed feels – No longer devout 

Gaze upon your crushed & splintered – analyzing self

Commence with sifting vital bits, stow on starboard shelf

UnTangle unMangle winnow further still

Don’t Stress —- be preoccupied — \/ — practice procrastination… 

Flip it trip it grind gears, mill

Efforts anchor medley of melancholic aspiration

525 thousand ain’t enough to do the work

Spit and polish not yet glitter, toiling in the murk

Visions emerge whence lights converge, let the flickers grow

What’s this you see? Basswood buds! peaking through the snow

Amalgamate & Consecrate The Essence of the Now

Circulate then annotate, life lived upon boats’ bow

Misting skies breathe life to living

Bespoke beSpeckled be kind be giving

Toning bonds 

Glints flight from ponds 

This; This IS the thing, the essence of all that Is – here & not here & there & theirs

With Hues of grey in tangled fray, where do souls grow?

Kept from view, mixing roux, days of boxed sand bento 

Images imagining immaculate impurities soothing & softening dreamscaped sky

Fluttering flittering flogging floughetry – 

Motion of the wrangled fly

Just because it’s syncopated don’t mean it’s oh so complicated – 

no need to get all aggravated, slow. your. roll.

Keep the Keeper – shine the light – Ramble On in2 the night

Regard the rails – raise your sails

GO – & wander, Tones On Tails

Black & Gold & Cree & Crow

Passing on the telling

River rise, knot the ties, mushroom-ton-a-Welling

It’s great, We’re Great! … No – really- seriously, we are… aren’t we?

But no one… is – mmm, — how u say? 

Clean the filter, wipe the lens

Demain- entre nous- flambeaux flambè

Listen to Saturn the Oceans & Seas

Talk to the Suns & the Moons 

Fire-Water-Do Not Burn

Breathe the ash of ruins

Mineral min(e)d _ for simple time — passing by the bly

Walk me out to find the fount & quaff elixir’s rye

Tend the earth & plant new seed,

Looking back – ere you lead

Passions inspire mind’s collective quest

Find your peoples, build your nest

In parting prose we knot loose bows, none left in the lurch

Strike the match & fan the flames with oil from life’s Birch

Salted steeled integrity be present in thy breast

Sing & whistle, Lavender Thistle, sop up all the zest