
boats float the river;
balloons through the sky.
i float through time.

boats float the river;
balloons through the sky.
i float through time.



sun sets upon
the river delta:
then pitch black night.

summer day from shade:
time attunes to floating
clouds and ducks.


late Autumn:
the last few leaves
refuse to fall.

Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan
Of tan with henna hackles, halt!
Damned universal cock, as if the sun
Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.
Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.
Your world is you. I am my world.
You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!
Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,
Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs,
And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.
