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10/31/00-Ghostly forms white black night view bright moonlit sands low dunes dark depths of sea still but for soft endless inland rush and outward draw like ocean breathing upon the circular shore few vital signs squat weatherworn shack the only shelter window holes opening to dim reflected rays smell of salt and rotting briny creatures on the beach comet tail's glow through long evenings pale dolphins distant apparitions silently leap cavort feasting among shining schools of squid overturned lifeboat staked down yet rolled up on driftwood logs barefoot with tiny silica drifts between my toes fresh water running low shadow specters in side vision...
10/23/00-Gray days in midst of pacific rain forest low overcast of clouds air moisture laden marsh meadow mist on a warm sun day here had chanced upon bright green water serpent angry at my disturbance of his matching scum green domain and full-throated raspy voiced red-winged black birds alert and territorial flicking tails and flitting from tall reed to reed today another realm fecund quiet cold the water level higher the then wet grassy bogs now submerged a late fall swamp and tiny clear stream the only outlet for the waters rising disappearing down a rocky filter with fingers pained by icy liquid I snatch up and wrap in wet kerchief tiny game fish flashing feebly upon the pebbles and carry the precious cargo home to supply a new aquarium mighty in rejuvenation they throve whipping about in the confining tank till with spring released again into a coastal lake...
10/16/00-Trillions of deathless realities coexisting cohabiting all times forms combinations we macrocosmic microcosms multiple clues for consciousness beyond the circumscribed medical limitations out-of-body experiences clairvoyance synchronicity the miraculous exists in midst of the ordinary everything may be endured even conscious dying in each life we are given so many breaths no more awareness ceases unfocused seek wizard windows being states persisting beyond the temporal concentrate there phenomenal falls away is blown apart in roaring tornadic winds louder more impelling than jet engines pass through the needle gateway with unblinking eye a new life we have our dance once more with no focus all utterly meaningless we expire at last exhalation nothing chemistry physics dissolution entropy rules catch the vision link successions of lives revolve about such seeing knowing in each existence at least one place of transition an opening find it or time in this crucible is wasted...
10/13/00-Shouts in righteous rage racial epithets sensual slide of black, brown, red, and yellow flesh on and in pink, tan, and white bodies orson welles' nostradamos movie interpretation narration whites pitted against those of color in the next conflagration our modern crusades for the sake of the sacred or the scared america for spacious skies for amber waves of grain most beautiful though we are our fathers' children how can this melting pot people of grace throw all our might and main with algebraic certainty behind a middle east bully a formulaic scream a raised fist hurled stones what threat met with rockets and automatically fired bullets against those from whom the land was stolen how consistent with all that has gone before that our great nation under god gives its support to the lighter tribe of israel against their darker brethren of abraham's kinship does it come at last to this that for fear like one hive or colony of bugs willy-nilly against another we decimate what does not quite smell, taste, or look the same whom we see as too different of their seed to be mixed with our own...
10/11/00-Dissonant music strains holes in clouds modern time lapsed care abstract art holes in gray angst background broken or missing slats holes in de fences tête à tête unworthy treatment holes exciting encounters with winsome nursing lass with whom playing doctor at issue great anxiety over forgotten patient now near death my client somehow we wangle a way holes through the wooden privacy barrier bright fields vacant lots ignorant drawn judas' heedless of consequences unfortunate gentle wild man little or no treatment terminal velocity black holes near death desperate that we shall be caught doctored record holes to divert blame not noticed crucial weak culpability palpable poe's telltale raskolnikov's dilemma and she and I criminal neglect as well now as later no escape drop down...
10/3/00-Lonely worlds wind rift chasm channels blast sanders to touch your bare cheek so soft so honest your gaze so clear unguarded your lips parted to know water realms hot salty elemental impurity your touch to speak without words you beckon perplexed by hesitation the green shoot upward springing enlightened sun-painted clouds a pair of ravens soaring swooping high mountain lords of sky too much chilling echoes cries...
10/1/00-Coffee and a senior breakfast at Jim's waitresses' hustling-bustling breasts-a-jouncing bounding deer sightings on morning walk highly lascivious dreams superior intelligence and other extremes natural niches always filled aggressive smart social creatures pre-dominate bears in Africa dancing picnicking suffering the same fate dolphins and whales canines gorillas chimpanzees and man their females all go for the larger---brain pan...
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