The Otherly Opus

clusters spring from the mounds
assembled acorns form shapes of crowns
all the fair folks sing
unto the wise who know to listen
sleeping creatures revive
woke by the faintest pinch of the pines
my own lyric ceases as a song arrives

ph oh, oh oh
otherly opus

autumn calls down the leaves
tells the maple "drip from the trees"
sends out invitations
to unwrap the gift of seasons
what may come after these?
age of sciences and of dreams
medicines, inventions and philosophies


Frivolity And Its Necessities

contemplate what holds you at this time?
books, self help, pills for your spells
never quiet for fear no one listens
somewhere you'll be someone

become everything you fear
frivolity and its necessities
become everything you fear
frivolity

two and six, tricked to feeling younger
never valiant when it's time
he's someone you used to remember
still immersed in mirrors


Colours In Dutch

life as a movement, still
like a single leaf that finally fell
fear of more moments lost
all the years failings will never be stopped

oh, such colours in Dutch
so much colour in Dutch

time caught in photographs
I remember when futures were planned
stared at with vacant eyes
all the white coats prescribe you a life


The Ushering In Of The Magical Era

writings found beneath the stairs
where youth dares to crawl
gasps and murmurs, muffled shrills
phantoms trape the halls

the ushering, ushering in of the magical era

statues of your ancestors
speech in whispered tones
as houdini reappears
to unmask a form

magical, magical, oh oh
magical, magical


Write Your Last Paragraph

where do minutes of the past
go when the hands of clocks have passed?
you ask "are you troubled much?"
I say "it's like when we were young"

write your last paragraph
memories of life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh

i've resolved not to insist
on whether I can weather this
winter aged us like the paint
that gathers by the window pane


The Memory Of Alpha

thought I saw a specter in the tree
be careful if you slumber
was walking in the garden, heard you leave
soon we'll need to be covered
I arrived, as the light was lifted
from your eyes

memory, memory, memory, memory
memory, memory, memory, memory
memory of alpha

are you bleeding?
oh, it's just a stain
I thought I heard you speaking
rrembling as you inch towards my embrace
what is it that you're holding?
you replied, before the innocence
had left my eyes


Red Will Dye These Snows Of Silver

I arrived to hear the earth unleash its cries
a guilty hand
the fruit of past fracturings
first to be of many future histories
from suffered birth

now red will dye these snows of silver
red will dye these snows of silver

famous by the mark inflicted on your life
the generations find new use for your crime
on green hills an angel
guards a bleak reminder
for all time


(The Timbre Of) The Timber Colony

from unknown books
come printed discoveries
enlightenment, recoveries
after the words have been read
from memory
the secrets start assembling

timber colony
ageless melodies
timber colony
books of memories

horns blow as we greet
in sight of good company
the forest entertains our thoughts
fond ones that dream
of richness and splendor
the wood beckons for us to sing


Ponderance Need Not Know

I begin to unfold like envelopes sent
by the hands of those who unfold
from the early part of a childhood, misspent
I remember books I now misquote

hush below
oh, oh ponderance need not know

all the icicles from the house that hanged us
I realize they still melt on us
you decline to reach for the apparatus
I cry as they carry you out

down to the earth
from before our birth
kept sealed


A Glass To Count All The Hours

sleep until night
the slowness of ancient sights
ponder the voice of birds in song
light enters by the glowing of fireflies
you said "is this forever ours?"

here is the light
that comes in brilliant forces
reminding us of what was lost
older than time, the rush of ending ages
stories of ours
a glass to count all the hours

a rustle of leaves
peaked your curiosity
I thought you might be vanishing
tricked by a worm
bewitched while imagining
the ghost of the earth took you from me