Hope

Impossible inventing
The possible resists
Translation --new,
Inchoate, stunned.
Can we create in all
This sanitation?
What's to be done--
Regal diadem or muzzle?
We have problems
To puzzle out.
I have some faith
In authority but much
More faith in doubt.
Cavewall icons, scrawled
In hunger, sufficed
When we were younger,
But we age; this
Is a larger cage.

The King's Mansion

[Daughter photo: Tell Noitce?]


Uncertain, caught
In a murky curtain,
Consuming its own
Remoteness, a
Process by which
Probability changes.
Temporal inversion,
Once occurred,
Never happened.
Another blessing in
Disguise: kings 'til
Proven otherwise.

No Doubt

[Norma photo, 41st anniversary, March '11]

Questions que je me
pose ne représentent
pas une stratégie sémantique.
Je suis vraiment ignorants.
Ici nous sommes
dans ce moment
extraordinaire.
C'est toujours
la réponse.

Breakers, Eons

Trough, crest,
Surf and sand,
Headland worn
By waves to stack
And arches, eons--
Storied orbit
Of the moon--
Subsides into
Tombolo, lagoon,
Eons and finally
Saline lake amid
Dunes where seas
Slipped away.
How long, How
Long it takes!

Atomic Storm In Parenthesis

[Daughter photo, Arena, Wis.]


Night seemed dazed.
A window rattled
Madly in wind
(Am I to be
Tossed into wild
Sky and end up
High above this valley,
Lost and crazed?
Do I dare rehearse
Such outrage in
My mind?
In reverse, much
Imagination seems
Unkind, dazed in
Night) and I am
At a loss to
Set it right.

Shoeing A Chimp

[photo:Henry Smith Williams, 1910]


Quelle sorte de l'emploi
nécessite
une
millions d'années
d'apprentissage?

Generations

[Brian photo: House On The Rock, Wis.]


We are made of
Force fallen from
Stars, its course
Laid through darkness,
Swells, tunnels
Out to carousels.
We worked, played,
Remained hopeful--
Lenses trained across
Time, focused farther
And farther on--
That starlight lives,
Receives, gives
And thrives in
Cosmic dawn.