Epistemic Humility,
the world adjusts its crown
Reality filtered through the lens
of who looks, when, and how
(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Joy
To children,
time is lost
The moment
set free
The instant
sublime
Joy
—the only cost
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
Perdita
Destiny sold
—eternity lost
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
This Moment
A tumbleweed Poet,
Mariah’s delight
The wind for a mistress,
the future in flight
A rambling Sage
with a heart full of why
Forgetting the past
—this moment defies
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
Each Day
Buying into the future,
without mortgaging the past
Each day a new indemnity
—a present made to last
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
\"No Man Is An Island\"
You speak to my spirit with logic,
I answer your mind from my soul
With words in two disparate languages,
our discourse to never be whole
Your left hemisphere sealed in a vacuum,
when my right hemisphere comes to call
Though Donne said, “No Man Is An Island”
—you’re marooned there adrift toward the falls
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Wealth Beyond
Richer than a platinum mountain,
more wealthy than a Sheik
The words I’m gifted lie bejeweled,
a fortune by their weight
No King or Titan, Earl endowed,
could match my treasured chest
Each word an ingot, phrase a bar
—my verse the Lord’s bequest
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
X-communicado
Suicide,
the death of the self
Consciousness martyred
—bathwater damned
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)