True North (+1)

Feigning reentry

from places I’ve wandered

Destiny challenged

the status-quo damns

Feigning reentry

from freedom unhindered

Life but a journey

its trappings to ban

Feigning reentry

its price was my freedom

The given agenda

new death to the dream

Feigning reentry

refusal my mantra

Staying in transit

—new rivers unstreamed

(The New Room: March, 2023)

Tibetan Marrow

Ideas

or wordcraft

There’s times

you must choose

The style

or substance

Which one

left askew

One choice

or the other

Becomes

zero-sum

Delivering

prescience

If words

—on the run

(The New Room: March, 2023)