For the Class of ’22 especially and all of the students, staff, teachers, parents, & caregivers who endured, adapted, and overcame during the Covid 19 pandemic
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