The rusted chains of prison moons Are shattered by the sun. I walk a road, horizons change The tournament’s begun. The purple piper plays his tune, The choir softly sing; Three lullabies in an ancient tongue, For the court of the crimson king. The keeper of the city keys Put shutters on the dreams. I [...]

Sundown dazzling day Gold through my eyes But my eyes turned within Only see Starless and bible black Ice blue silver sky Fades into grey To a grey hope that oh years to be Starless and bible black Old friend charity Cruel twisted smile And the smile signals emptiness For me Starless and bible black [...]

Call her moonchild Dancing in the shallows of a river Lovely moonchild Dreaming in the shadow of the willow. Talking to the trees of the cobweb strange Sleeping on the steps of a fountain Waving silver wands to the night-birds song Waiting for the sun on the mountain. She’s a moonchild Gathering the flowers in [...]

Said the straight man to the late man Where have you been I’ve been here and I’ve been there And I’ve been in between. I talk to the wind My words are all carried away I talk to the wind The wind does not hear The wind cannot hear. I’m on the outside looking inside [...]

Tears of joy at the birth of a brother Never alone from that time Sixteen years through knife fights and danger Strangely why his life not mine West side skyline crying Fallen angel dying Risk a life to make a dime Lifetimes spent on the streets of a city Make us the people we are [...]

Now… in this faraway land Strange… that the palms of my lands Should be damp with expectancy Spring… and the air’s turning mild City lights… and the glimpse of a child Of the alleyway infantry Friends… do they know what I mean Rain… and the gathering green Of an afternoon out-of-town But Lord I had [...]

The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams. Upon the instruments if death The sunlight brightly gleams. When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams, Will no one lay the laurel wreath As silence drowns the screams. Between the iron gates of fate, The seeds of time were [...]

Cadence and Cascade Kept a man named Jade; Cool in the shade While his audience played. Purred whispered Spend us too:We only serve for you . Sliding mystified On the wine of the tide Stared pale-eyed As his veil fell aside. Sad paper courtesan They found him just a man. Caravan hotel Where the sequin [...]

If I only could decieve you Forgetting the game Every time I try to leave you You laugh just the same ‘Cause my wheels never touch the road And the jumble of lies we told Just returns to my back to weigh me down… We lay cards upon the table The backs of our hands [...]

Houses iced in whitewash guard a pale shore-line Cornered by the cactus and the pine. Here I wander where sweet sage and strange herbs grow Down a sun-baked crumpled stony road. Dusty wheels leaning rusting in the sun; Snuff brown walls where Spanish lizards run. Here I’m shadowed by a dragon fig tree’s fan Ringed [...]

A flower lady’s daughter As sweet as holy water Said: “I’m the school reporter Please teach me”, well I taught her. Two fingered levi’d sister Said, “Peace”, I stopped I kissed her. Said, “I’m a male resister”, I smiled and just unzipped her. High diving chinese trender Black hair and black suspender Said, “Please me [...]

Earth, stream and tree encircled by sea Waves sweep the sand from my island. My sunsets fade. Field and glade wait only for rain Grain after grain love erodes my High weathered walls which fend off the tide Cradle the wind to my island. Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide Mournfully glide o’er [...]