Soldiers

 for the HHS Young Men’s Group, 2009
.
I know you already been drafted
elsewhere,
that you been called to duty
by other armies of the imagination.
I see your uniforms –
skinny jeans below your ass
revealing brand name elastics,
and pretending a connection
to prison cell stories,
where young boys like you
become beautiful concubines
to be traded amongst older men
with truer tales [...]

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The flint breaks away

a poem for the cavemen
 
Sticks and branches were not enough,
     the big cats and other beasts 
had learned the bluff;
other groups had big sticks, too.
And in their natural state,
     rocks just would not do.
Then like magic,
           the flint breaks away
     and with it some of the darkness
          and the fear.
There was an edge now to our being,
     like new found claws [...]

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Noah’s banana boat for alphabet animals

Guest artist, Alexander Raphael Toromoreno’s, “Noah’s banana boat for alphabet animals” … see how many letters and animals you can find.  Here’s a hint, there’s a cow and a pig, sinking in the ocean.
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a meme

 

 
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DN_Angels

I imagine this is what the creation workshop must have looked like.
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Sermon for the godless

I sleep late with my certainty
on Sunday morning, letting the
day break the spell of darkness
like it always has;  subtly at first
and then revealing the full
nature of our spinning.
I have learned to keep
the necessary things that prove
their place in the universe;
that show their accidental
designs in their morbid
architecture – free of ghosts,
or gods breaking laws
of the reality I [...]

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Shaping the sands

Looking at
       a postcard
            of the Parthenon
                   I remember that
              we have scuttled
                along the
                    sand enough
                         to leave a
                             line like
                                 a desperate crab
                                dancing in
                           the momentary
                       sunlight.
                          Knowing that
                              the waves
                                    are coming back
                                       does not deter us
                                    from the stories
                               that we carry
                          like our shell,
                       protecting us
                    from being
                 homeless
             or [...]

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One of these guys

 So freedom of speech and ideas is okay, but “crazy”, “radical” freedom of speech and ideas is not … unless it’s religious?
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Losing Traces

A poem in response to (or stolen from, depending on your perspective) a friend’s poem.
 
No posts
No signs
No symbols
No music
No meaning
No sonnets
No turning
No land
No secrets
No business
No present
No past
No knowing
No dreaming
No sequels
No man
No order
No echo
No loom
And no time
No standing
No making
No art
No mankind
So Soon
No moon
No ocean
No searching
No thoughts
And then,
Never mind.
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Losing God on 9/11

I saw a bumber sticker recently that read:
“Science flies you to the moon; Religion flies you into buildings”
Everyone with a memory of September 11, 2001 knows where they were and what they were doing when they watched the first truly global event of the new millennium. It was like seeing men walk on the moon [...]

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