Ah, the ancient see - saw ethereal:
Between the essential now, here with me,
And the anticipation of looking back to now.

What audacity to think that our mortal perception,
...
Will not itself be put out of the textbooks
When our grandchildren discover
What ignorant savages we are

22 Feb 1998
From Red Shift

Who is it that you've lost
That you have not found inside yourself?
Those who've left us, left us clues;
You carry on, you carry them, you're more.

LMC 23July08

It is not enough
Not to mean to do something.
You must MEAN not to do it!

Self-awareness is only as perfect as our myth of reality.
[From Red Shift - Mind]

I came to love you never knowing you were gone

From "Jo Betty"

You were a rose bled dry on her own thorns:
Torn by your insights, ripped apart by reality.

From "Jo Betty"

Never define yourself by the man who happens
To be in your life at any given moment.

from "It's Self-Reliance, Girl"

Don't ask the Burning Bush for knowledge,
It knows only the flame that licks its leaves.

From "Egret Savior"

THAT moment - that last one:
That instant where you cease to be . . . ;
It's not the ultimate obsession, but it's close;
And needs no metaphor to dull the blade,
For like most pain, it's best
To take it in raw, sharp, scream.