HYOHAKUSHA

Laying there in fading summer jazz sunlight,
it seems your floor is a meadow,
and you are enraptured by
the bone machine's dreams
of oceans and staircases and flying.

While other insomniacs silently study
the anatomy of slumber,
you feed the tranquil chaos
of Icarian idealism and
burn with the passion
of what really matters.

So you let rise
your fleshy shades,
and allow the moon to baptize
you in it's lustral light.

The very wind is
calling out to you,
the clouds and the trees
know your name.

There are many mountains moving
under these dark skies

You would die
to be one of them.

January 3,10, 1999/September 18, 2009

Note:

Hyohakusha (Jap)- one who moves about without direction

Icarian (GJ original)- loosely coined term (after Icarus of mythology) meaning a certain naivety & innocence; youthful: full of passion, desire; lofty aspirations or dreams; reaching for the heavens