Hyperstate

I stand on starkness stretching beyond me At the horizon stands a wall of white Light is lashing out but I try to see It glares around, above, below, so bright I place my hand to shield my eyes to scan My heartbeat tells of goring and of fear Find red on…

The morning star crashed down upon the earth From the glowing crater the burning angel stood and raised their head and cast their eyes towards the heavens coveting the throne up there in pain All above from horizon to horizon stretched the ruddy dome For…

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We think first then our hands form We mold the clay to our will and we bend the metal to our imagined shape So when we behold the formed that far exceeds our skill to make we see greater hands and further thought But what furnace and what hammer wrought a…

The rubble of a building among the resting "Urban renewal" they said A face and perhaps a soul restored to youth by surgeons; more urban renewal Also the nine strata of Troy piled upon each other into a mound Troy VI: Achilles rose in vengeance to his fall

On Earth before us, birds flew And flowers bloomed And there was a chitter among the leaves And thundered steps of herds across the plains And no one kept beasts as cattle No one milked them They went unguarded by us No one gathered crops to be stored away

I haven't seen your face in a while and I thought I had not missed it but then I thought of the curves of its smile and how your eyes are laughter I drown into And then I got up and walked the path to your house, as I had done so many times before and I f…

The city is the forest now where birds fly and plants ascend I rise to birdsong and blooms Yet our mighty works don't crumble This is not the afterworld Not the fall and not a lonely place At the shoreline where the cities stand this is a world of teeming…

I put the seed in soil and nurse it on and green, a tiny stalk, so slowly grows Yet flowers die; a burst, then broken dawn So brief a life, so soon forever closed A splash of color bright with paint will stay and flowers won't; and yet I grow them still B…

I opened up my eyes in the middle of the night In the sea of dreams I found a port I saw the moon amongst the racing clouds in this centre point of time In what distant deeps did my dreams reside?

In dit land van ontmoetende rivieren, op de vlakte van het alluvium tussen velden met graan, eerst gezaaid stond een vrouw, hand boven haar ogen kijkend naar de karavaan die voorbij trok.

We set the place: the trackless void of space We crossed the stellar distance - outward bound The station Happenstance, a forward base constructed long ago, abandoned, found Its systems old, obscure, and hard to read Some hands, or tendrils, teeth or trun…

In this land where the rivers met on the plains of alluvium among the fields of grain, first planted a woman stood, hand over eyes watching traders passing by.

Strike a chord on a sunbeam We begin to play Listen, listen to our lament In the east the killing fields of yellow sun and skies so blue Bold resistance a surprise Blood and darkness spent Listen, listen to this sound In the middle of the land ships sink…

I walked through streets paved with cobblestones It was dusk, and the scent of spring was in the air Pause to find my way among these houses bent by centuries I am to see a man about a book that's stumbling slowly through the age when they were built, and…

The sun beats down upon this world Light drowning in an ocean of trees which spreads from shore to shore Beasts had risen from the sea before Now one rests on the leaf of a scale tree while an early riser flies by flapping translucent wings Horse tails re…

Winter nights are long strung together Perhaps a word of daylight spoken There's little sunshine in this weather If the day's gloom was even broken But then you step into the crisp night You brave the cold for some chore perhaps Wrapped by a coat and ther…

Behold the man who stepped onto the stage and rocked the underfoot until it cracked We hear about his words, his feet, his rage That to this world he brought what it had lacked He was a leader crownless, still so veiled A king to pull the empire down for…

When gods had left the earth they left it dark No light in the trees -- no light but some stars where they touched the sky and left their godly mark earth they touched too; she still carries their scars We sat; we heard some faint call in the night the st…

into both pools I fall into wells of tears into mirrors dark distorted diffracted reported redacted apported distracted receding refracted at the bottom I find an image of the fallen in you I find eye eye finds me Notes I wrote this poem perhaps in 2023.

He is the man, the man who has it all He's smarter, knows it all, and so deserving No fear, clear eyes, untamed, he hears the call What he doesn't know isn't worth preserving There's nothing he cannot grasp and gain For him no rules or regulations He casts

The horizon cracked from side to side They scoured the continent with a lash Broken, ashes, fiery clashes The locomotive howled into the gloom The whip encroached, we tried to hide Boots came knocking on my door that night By the rhythmic rocking of a tra…

So cold waves now crash against the shore A rock still stands in surf, defying spray It's dusk today, wind from winter's core The breaking sun just spat a final ray Alone in the dark a rock is rushing on Forged primeval, still, of grit and ice The sunlight

I saw a road It was long and winding twists and turns forever more and on my back a sack a heavy load Such a road!

I am light light as a feather and as bright as a peacock's I shine this world is mine I live in this one not in the next but I can imagine and if I want to ten thousand more Being light is a dance of balance and dreams thought and emotion woven together w…

forest draped they were with bands of green bald gray heads white-capped the mountains loomed and from the pass below I hear a distant clamor crimson draped they were with white tusks bald gray shapes saddle-capped great beasts of war I'd never seen before

I stand in the sunset Where light once sat now darkness takes my face Pockmarked, cold and stark Breathe and feel the dark Stand in the midnight Stand here with me Stars Like pinpricks in the cosmic fold I wrap the dark; a cloak around me My old blue comp…

So bright, wise Pandora was gifted in all ways As a woman maligned as they did in those days Now we are not so blind and should you disagree I'll explode in fury You can't say that to me We are better, you see Our own judge and jury Respect is our aura Pa…