10.
a sweet small apple
fresh coffee and the radio
morning painkillers
11.
sing on Tom Petty sing
the days drive, burn, and hurt
but still: horizon
[Day book 2026 // Spring 3.25.26]
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Poet. Essayist. Fictioner. Steamboat fireman. Bit of a grackle.
1.
song sparrows and ants
promises of the season
call, march this new day
2.
the dogs, being kind
let me sleep in -- grace
is best unspoken
3.
body remedies:
hot coffee, fresh air
a cold face wash
[Daybook 2026: Spring 3.20.26]
The soundtrack for reentry involves a strong base line
an electric guitar, and deep earth anger focused
into high beam love.
What the mistake is, is believing love just is light.
Love is also the dark byproduct, the will, the drive
the expansive power to move the engines of all the worlds.
Love lives in the dark and shimmers and calls forth.
Rolling out to Baltimore on a not too full bus, I remembered myself.
The mind unknotting itself, the bones
untangle and unfurl. I am the night hawk of light and shadow
an eclipse, a solar wind, a lunar soul, a wing, a song, a convection current, a prevailing wind.
These wings, these feet, these lungs inhale
thunder and exhale lightning. Returned, rested, and embraced
I breathe fire and plumb the deepest channels
upon which the entire globe floats.
