She can wake you up Or put you to sleep She can make you laugh Or make you weep She'll teach you to fly Or stay close to the earth She'll talk you to death For all that you're worth She can lift you high Choose to lay you low She'll walk in your shoes She'll want to...

I drive Congress Street Like a regular trail. I see palms turned up In a powdered-blue veil. This woman leans forward As if to appeal: Lift this heavy stone My arms are too frail. Now she stares at the ground With tears to conceal In a world so uncaring With no heart...

Here I sit Now clearly see The fate of my efforts. The ocean beats against this rock Like swells and exhalations Of a watery Beast Furious that I am still On the cliff Legs dangling Tauntingly... Or so it thinks. Always the wind blows Against me From the left-then the...

The canopy of night covers the land The stars of heaven blur hand in hand I drift to slumber and die again I’m light as air I drop my pen. The moon defines a lit circle of birth Death shall deliver each Soul from earth I hope next time when I fly beyond I’ll become a...

Where is the sin in being fat or thin? Live and let live, all treasure within I am not plastic, nor claim fantastic To freeze in a frame, a Soul to claim This temple is mine, with a Self of Divine I am not prized, for an ass and thighs See a cut from a-torn and...

I've seen the Indians They came for their land The rivers and trees The mountains and sand Sometimes they're in pairs But more often alone We've been so busy How could we have known? Money distracts US The television attacks Our conscience of care Our knowledge of...

Does 'not too bad' Mean 'not too good'? I asked the doctor If she really could Explain such little Evasive terms Do I or don't I Have killer germs? The insurance company Told you to be sure Or there'd be no payment For the needed cure. I waited five days For a "virus"...