On a coast battered and bruised we stand and search for distant visions...
First to Arrive
Tag: sea
Same Sky
The same sky over grey seas watched the crossing, the slow voyage...
Salish Sea
The past is a fever dream, washing ashore with driftwood...
Visions of the Sea
And to the ship with sails unfurled on red horizons said the wind, ‘Come follow me’...
The Cities We Burn
The air over this land is thick with incense vapors rising from the ancient cities we burn papyrus curling blackened in the flame...
Strange and Distant Sea
Your touch was lightning in the freezing rain The main line plugged straight into a nerve As the sky screamed overhead...
A Thousand Songs
This house is warm with the scent of fire Voices talk of yesterday in matchstick glow And breathe out a thousand songs of tomorrow...
Waves of a Silent Sea
From out of the west come visions of gold Playing in the eyes of a man atop his deathbed The long moments become waves of a silent sea Rolling inexorable to the city wall...
A World in Daylight Beyond This Shore
His pulse aligned with the ebbing tide Foam-flecked sand awash in moonlight Losing track of the night beneath the waves...
Eyes Wide
Laughing faces on the edge of darkness Twisting in the blue-gold light, the digital glow Eyes are windows into shadow, or mirrors And these cliffs that tumble out of the forest To drown themselves in the raging sea From heights lost to a woolen sky...
Death Throes of a Universe
How heavy the empty space lies over heaving ocean And stars spark together who know nothing of constellations
In Your Hands
I know you shape the world between your fingers Leaving behind beauty encased in sweetwater
Taste of Freedom
Sunrise on the Sea of Cortez A beach beginning to wake Beside an ocean that never slept
My Next Big Purchase
I could buy a boat and disappearDip below the horizon and enter a new worldDraw life from the sea, guidance from the starsSwell and heave with the wild tideConverse with monsters of the deepDrop anchor in strange waters andSleep under moonbeams scented with myrrhIn harbors of lands unmapped, unknownThe lifeblood of the Earth could be… Continue reading My Next Big Purchase
Dance of the Blood Sea
A slow dance to the rhythm of heartbeatsBeneath the surface of a blood-red seaOur hearts beat madly against the wavesCrashing over the wind-smooth sea wallBattering the harbor’s defensesSeeking to sweep away the port protectedThrow it all out to distant horizonsTear the wall to piecesLet the tide in to cleanse our soulsThis perfect vulnerability knows only… Continue reading Dance of the Blood Sea
