Equinox

Sun will set today on the summer

Our hot discontent momentarily

Dissipated in the rain and autumn

Air

Again we cross the line in the

Cycle the tilted Earth

The nuclear star the

Politics lurching from left to

Far right hurricanes in the

Gulf

Not since Plato have such

Actors moved democracy

Moved the poor the uneducated

He warned Aristotle who helped

Alexander conquer the world

Die and send himself into

Exile

All over again as the sun sets on summer

As fall arrives

Leaves turn brown

And our nation surrenders to the

Oligarchs

Jack, Autumnal Equinox 2010

11:11

Eleven eleven a m in a

Morning that will not go by

After a night of sleeplessness

Over your sleepless work

All night work

You love you say

As you cough and twitch

As I bury my face in the red pillow

As I remember at eleven fourteen

On a morning that will not go by

My night’s anxiety

How do I learn to let it go

To let you do as you decide

To let the endless morning go by

Without wanting to push the minute

Hand to a new hour

For now the way

The path the answer

Eludes me as the morning

At long last

Ends