ILLUMINATE
Part I: Light and Breath
Let’s all
reach out touch a
Non-loved face, light, the eye
Breathe sky
Love the dirty and raspy breath of
Tony- holding his sign
His ripped coat, face leather
stench of urine, or just skin
Untouched by water/
Soap a commodity, a luxury
Granted- I take it
Water that falls from sky
out of pipe and little holes
Scream- normal, no rich
It screams rich
Rich like chocolate cheese cake
Like gold watch-wrist
Don’t touch close
Five feet
Accepted like
Chapsticked lips Makeuped eyes
Do you see it?
Far
Off from us there is
In sky
Light
I can’t reach you us.
Part II: Reflection
Moon a reflection, a shadow
A dirt ridden
Are you there?
Is it safe?
To turn and walk towards a new
day
Leave behind craters
Of non-gravity
Walk away/ look away
From the little girl in the pink
hoodie
Standing in line
Soup kitchen
Or the naked African boy crawling
In dirt
Bones breaking with each
Look up dark or light
Shining is it?
Am I? Ignoring
Look a BMW hood
Reflecting my face
Ashamed
I am I say through pursed lips
I see with eyes
Scream
mouth wet with salt
hope with light I’ll see where
I step
And float.
Four Years and Counting
My bed was stolen and taken out the back sliding glass door
Why don’t you want me?
A cry fading to a whisper
A background noise blending into the desert
it joins the swirling wind and
creates a tornado
consuming the past and present
it reaches a still pond
The tornado vanishes…
Among the water’s peaceful solitude
silence
Gently the pond
FillS to brim and over
flows
t r i c k l
e
s
and becomes a mighty river
Spreading through the dry
Desert
Me
a
wanderer
I follow
New life springs up a tree on a hill grows a silhouette stands beside
I climb up and grasp the ripened fruit pluck it from a low branch
and hand it back