vice
woman
disgrace
cross my heart
sitting tear less
among a lone river
of Oleander
repairing a torn
tin drum
as songs in ordinary time
teach guns
these germs of steel
how to better fire upon
the hours
we each have left
houses of fog and sand
sweet distant places
left unfinished
in the truth
that every man seeks first in
himself
then in God
as well as others
all while embracing the wake
of possible defeat
one plain song
rises proud
a glorious but shadowed butterfly
among a sober click
of caterpillars.............
(March 12, 2000 955pm)