2.5250 : 9/17/19 : Upside Down (The Experiment: 85/100)

Upside down

underwater

could we be

learning

got no spotter

do the

heavy lifting

all alone

and they won't

even throw me

a bone

what

2.5233 : 8/31/19 : Double Deck (The Experiment: 68/100)

Double decade

gone not

forgotten

try to be

philosophical

take the good

with the rotten

hell of a lot

of water flows through

nobody much

came to the 

rescue

and the old film

about the secret

reality

never really

played out

in any eventuality

what

2.4909 : 10/11/18 : Lead

Think I was smarter before

maybe it's lead

taint in the water

and fogged up my head

the words not so glib

Short on nuance and flair

Oh likely just a slump

or time just

drove me square

 

2.4811 : 7/5/18 : Lament

Something in the water

something in the fare

or just how the trouble

finds you everywhere

the habits you know

just can't continue

no sign of the kingdom

of God within you

and no justification

for another lament

in a week I'll be wondering

how the time got spent

what

2.4780 : 6/4/18 : No Magical Place

You go down the rabbit hole fast

It's no magical place

it's a blast from the past

and the present and

help me the future too

I daydream again

about escape with you

I need I need to smother this toxic seed

this angry ghost

this ersatz need

stop looking in the dead wrong places

seek the lower ground

the watery traces

If I put my hands together

bowed to the floor

If I kept my face to the wall

will you show me the door

If I edge out of this hole

a wriggle at a time

stay alert to the revert

and on tiptoes for the chime

what

2.4702 : 3/18/18 : Aqua Regian

Turns out every astrologer

got it all wrong

the Aquarian Age

started out

with this song

Once awake

the original Aquarian

Such surprise

I am the Aqua Regian

the last White King

the age that was past

twelve lights in the sky

Lord Christ forever my mainmast

ask what it means

the age of those

that moe like water

I secede my throne

and point

to the first daughter

what

2.4676 : 2/20/18 : Reason for Being

Waves and water

great rolling clouds

all these words dissolving

get no cheering

got no crowds

just a sense of turmoil

a great roiling chaos

some how the capitalists

will harness

to preplex the players

and I'm bobbing along

the surface like a cork

obsessed with my

reason for being

won't be delivered by a stork

won't be wrapped

like a package

sublty marked in a book

for all that I can't give

up on it

and so I wriggle

on the hook

what

2.4479 : 8/7/17 : Heron

Water bird

dips its head

in the quiet

my soul is fed

how the ripples

circle out and out

no need for words

no idea

what it's about

heron I imagine

When I see you fly

where you land

What passes by

You could call it

elementary

but where it will

show

is a mystery to me

what

2.4458 : 7/17/17 : Rain Symphony

Rain symphony forever familiar

never remotely the same

nature who will outlive us all

forever wild and never tame

they hunted water in the desert

they prayed for fire to melt the ice

and in the age of heat and more heat

they counted it as gold in price

we'll pray the mighty river does not dry

we'll fight them trying to pipe it to Vegas

and because irony never dies

in many times and places the rain will plague us

I'll tip my head and smile wide

you'll hear no doleful din from me

just the soft tapping on my skin

in the falling of the rain symphony

what

2.4447 : 7/6/17 : The Cure for Everything

The cure for everything

water and salt

sweat out every particle

of shame or fault

and tears that come and go

like the thunderstorms of summer

sometimes the honored guest

sometimes a lazy slummer

But mostly today

I salute the rear door

that opens to the other half

of the world from the near door

that other doorway that opened

to the new path looping round

to that other end of that one road

that runs the whole world

and oh that familiar sound

knew it in San Diego

The Gulf of Mexico

Midway the great Pacific

and how its tune did go

It sang the same

and the story it'd speak

lit up my battery in Chesapeake

"The cure for everything is saltwater - sweat, tears, and the sea" - sign in The Deadrise restaurant, Hampton VA

what

2.4206 : 11/7/16 : What Will the Future Think

What will the future think

of our little contest

You know I think they'll have

forgotten all about this mess

a bump in one long smear

of shallow drifting waste

hell if they'l mark at all

one sticky lump in the paste

like Rocky said about

water in a black cup

we afford the past no sense of choice

and then I drank it all up

what

2.4197 : 10/29/16 : I May Have Said Anon

I may have said anon

I paid enough in every coin

Nobody cares we're all stripped

Clean before the waters join

and carry us without a boat

to where the driftless time shoals float

and I don't have to

show my work

still from your mug

I'll swipe that smirk

what

2.4161 : 9/23/16 : Another Seven

5 years scut on the floor

5 years apprentice

Don't speak the language

maybe non compos mentis

So many things

that will never happen

one that always will

this fantasy game

makes decision

a bitter pill

find my own crazy hours

find my galley kitchen

finally end this treading water

never time to get a stitch in

tear gets a little wider

can't think that way by heaven

5 years dirty starting now

and then another seven

what

2.4159 : 9/21/16 : 500 Years

Foul the future

for 500 years

raising the temperature

water up to our ears

and there's blame

to go around for days

and little rhyme

or reason to who pays

what

2.4119 : 8/12/16 : Grouch

Guess I better

quell this grouch

kick the lump man

off the couch

spit on vice

and clean house

grasp up my witch-stick

and dowse

what

2.3726 : 7/16/15 : Stretched (Endless Axis 459/500)

Stretched too far

at long last

I'm losing it

getting

deep and vast

shadow on the water

how'd it work out again?

and the membrane is

grown very thin

what

2.3621 : 4/2/15 : Stumble (Endless Axis 354/500)

Stumble overdue

but no time for falling

can't think about the big picture

just too appalling

and I've got my little patch

to keep spruce

gotta stay like water

or so said Bruce

Now in the light

Must work while I may

So hey today

today today

what

2.3595 : 3/7/15 : The Writer (Endless Axis 328/500)

The writer has a plan now

one two three

and kapow

The mission is a map see

and roll it

comes up craps, see

and roll it

probably come up

nothing

still working, huh

here's

the thing

You'll make of it

what you will

if you decide

the kill pill

no I'll make of it

water

the highest good

the blotter

what

2.3508 : 12/10/14 : Wind and Light (Endless Axis 241/500)

Could we make something

of wind and light

Find a way to make peace

never more to fight

I should say oh yes

So what's the delay for

Oh just one more famine

just one little war

I thought I set out to shout

Up at beauty's high window

tied up in sunlight

racing like the wind blow

oh one more revolution

putting different thugs in charge

one more false economy

small eaten by the large

Maybe I turn my back

today on the whole affair

If I know nature

I'll still find beauty everywhere

light and wind

on the waters and shimmer

to hell with your rhetoric

make do with a trace and glimmer

what

2.3506 : 12/08/14 : Vessel (Endless Axis 239/500)

So drink the liquor

So drink the tea

behold the vessel

and from want be free

enough and water

enough and broth

hey new horizon

all cut from whole cloth

deliver nine treasures

appears a stoneware cup

thought provides content

magic fills it up

heck could call it silicone

gasoline

another irony

of the post-machine

what