Saturday, September 25, 2010

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


Tuesday, September 21, 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