Time Hunter (+2)

Words of malice, curses flamed,

hiding in the past

No license needed to hunt through time

—the present armed en masse

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)

Giving It Up

Give it back to the night,

give it back to the day

Give it back to the moment,

where time goes to pray

Give it back to the future,

give it back to the past

Give it up to the present

—forever to last

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)

A New Stone

Standing alone

on the altar’s first step,

apprenticeship dethroned

Indentured anew,

my eyes turn inward,

disarmed, but not disowned

A quarter to forever

in the distance ahead,

blank meadows still to quote

The hour glass waiting

upon no man,

to deliver its last joke

Seeds scatter freely,

 implanted anew,

words rising where vision bled

Each one a new stone

in eternity’s trail

—the unborn baby fed

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)