29.2

Orange Juice and News
[by S. David]

We awoke to bright lit
Stark shadows cutting the ground.
Up the block,
Kids played on the street.

Across the orange juice-
Out of our window,
We watched them
Pause
To let cars go by.

We could almost feel the heat
And light
Hammering them
Into monuments
To the morning.

And then the day’s paper
Came.

She said, “But let’s go to the park.”

I said, “To watch people,
When the paper’s unread?”

She said, “Shall we always be so
Ritual?”

So I burnt the morning paper.


22§2[Orig 5/05/98] http://theskaldicsoul.com/

7674

Secret Passages Running Deep
Beneath External Nature
[by S. David] [art by Marty Maehr]

The old ways
Hidden
In hiding
Secret
And so few
Survive
Who can
Walk the land
Feel
The power flow
Beneath
Deep beneath
The ground
In tune
Attuned
To the secrets
Of nature
Not what
Is seen
Like dowsing
The Druids
Of old
Strolled
Across the land
Tasting
Testing
The ley of
The land
Using
Until
Overwhelmed
Until
The White Christ
Put an end
And the secrets
Became secrets
Again
37§ [Orig 3/24/09] http://www.maehrcreations.net/

7491

The Messenger II
[by S. David] [art by Sarah Renee Valeri]

Sacred innocence
Wandering her way
Implied implied
The message
A doe
White in
Darkest night
Surely a messenger
Surely God driven
Coming this way
Apparition
The Seeing Eye
Comprehends
The beating heart
Loud
Loud
To the ears
The hearing of
The Watcher then
Stillness
And yet
There is
Meaning
The shotgun
·
·
·
·
Falls

20§ [Orig 12/13/08] http://www.keepyoureyespeeled.blogspot.com/