If being and the world
are one and the same
Then thinking and thoughts
are together to name
With freedom and consciousness
semantically fused
All judgment and will
—symbiotically cued
(Baldwin School: March, 2021)
The Mousetrap Revisited
Entrapping the magic,
philosophers moan
Theory after theory,
no meat on the bone
They label and mark,
their didactics retooled
Force feeding their ramble
to dilettante-fools
And when in the end
they are then proven wrong
They slink back to their hollows,
where the vanquished now throng
But a new tier of ‘masters’
has taken their place
To lecture and spiel
—and pontificate
(Baldwin School: March, 2021)
The Old Woman Says...,
“You’ve got more past than future,”
she said without a smile
“The hours lost will not rewind,
your pendulum beguiled
“You’ve got more past than future,”
the hag said one last time
“Your legacy a broken spring
—whose clock no longer chimes”
(Valley Forge Memorial Bell Tower: March, 2021)
Brush Strokes & Margins
I can’t draw,
but I paint
I still sin,
but a saint
I talk best
when I’m mute
All I’ve lost
in pursuit
I begin
at the middle
And end
at the start
To give back
to the silence
This thing
—we call art
(The New Room: March, 2021)