The Human and Vegetable Experience

I hold on to the shore
But I can’t escape the eye of the storm
The waves keep crashing in
But I’ll stay in the currents
I’ll wait in the hurricane
At the peak of something I don’t know
Remembering all the mavericks
That break my shell like walls
Just to glimpse the naked eye
I’m nature by design
The undertones are the strangers in the crowd
But I know you like I know myself
In high tide when the ships are going down
I’ll stay above the waves
In the limbo of jaded infinity
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In the wild of my thoughts
The jungle of living
Persistent was the world
And breath by breath
I fall into the limbo
I swarm above the cities
Covering the fickle things
In the wild was all feeling
Covering both the giver and the given
And as my body emptied my soul
I’m older then the day before
And the chalice of time touched my lips
I hear humming of my childhood like bees
Flying and floating away
In the wild of my living
I lost my child brith thoughts

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Argo painted on the walls
Light years away
Orion on your face
Flush
Beautiful sounds of the young
And born in the midst is the sudden mind
Restless in pursuit
Order the skies galaxies in hoards
Flooding the sky
Earth born vessel carrying a miracle
Immaculate conception
Form again and turn the world
Into your eternal confection
Asterisks in the beginning
Bluejay in the winter snowflake in the desert
You’re the impossibility rarity of life
We’re searching for the writing on the wall
The mysterious message on caves and coves
Sweeten the still life blossoming in June
Until our world comes to ruins
Then call this world house or home

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I’m feeling blue

Because all those beautiful words aren’t

For me they’re for you

I’m not your muse

And that leaves me dazed and confused

For a little while for hours

I’m the sandcastle you don’t believe in

And the waves hardly crush me down

But you tear me in two

If ever there was a time

I’m dazed ,dazed and confused

At the thought that I love you

All the blues meet the green

All the suns fall into ravines

And the night owl peers for more

As I knock on your door

Honey sweet honeydew

What I’d give to have you

You leave me dazed , dazed and confused

The night sky the misty moon

They were all parts of you and that made me blue

I’m not your muse

I’m just dazed, dazed and confused

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And your story I loved
How you both got up in the morning
Had your breakfast together
Love is still alive even after the weathering

I recount the number of times I watched
You fold your laundry
The amount of times you entertained guests
Just a yard away

I recall all the times you’ve cut the grass
All the times you watched television at night
I remember how intertwined you are to my story

To you both I am the woman who never closes her curtains who watches the sky desperately on New Years Eve

I’m the woman who dances in the night when she can’t sleep the one who never breaks
The magnifying glass between us

I’m the people watcher you call neighbour
The one who will never greet you
For fear it will ruin the magic of our wonderful game

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Nervous hands at the wheel

You’re rushing to meet her

And the songs on the radio

Make you nervous again

You went to meet her again

On the islands in the night

Her mother was a quiet woman

And her father couldn’t stay out of fights

She always called you her muse

She fought like her father

Like she had nothing to lose

But she never fought with you

She never wanted too

One day she hoped to get closer

And she’d wait to see what you would do

But then she moved away

Started talking really funny

She said she wasn’t afraid to kill dreams

To fold her winning cards for money

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