A Token For The Master (+1)

Boiling away the edges

letting the core expand

Limitations drifting free

clarity at hand

Horizon coming at me

sky and earth as one

Sunsets in my memory

answers on the run

A token for the master

a pittance bye and bye

Value placed in what is not

scientists decry

My width and breadth immortal

the universe set free

To roam forever in my heart

—your eyes too blind to see

(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: May, 2022)

Time Reclaimed

Reaching for the universe

 fate extends a hand

Shortcut to Andromeda

  route at its command

The speed of light exceeded

all flashes turn inside

To burn and bend eternal

where life no longer dies

Each star laid out before me

 whose orbits spin and weave

Their presence all revealing

what black holes can’t retrieve

Inside there are no limits

or borders to constrain

The words forever calling

in voices—time reclaimed

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)