this is

A Reason for

Creating

and

Paying Attention:

It is hard to stay being born

into this world

without

the

passionate

exchange of inspiration.

---

Vision of the Present

Slow spread on the cushion of night

steel light beyond waiting, the glint of a blade.

shivers of radiance on waves at dawn.

Blood in my body, a band stretched taut,

struck vibrating a quivering note fading lower into silence.

The shifting of feet on gravel, dimly deeper,

the path appears as I step on the thin edge of now.