Hmmmm.....
I thought I felt
A feeling
Bad
A feeling
Sad
A feeling
Glad
But then it was
Gone
But then I was
None
But here I am
Again
I thought I could
Remember
I thought I could
Recover
I thought I could
Revive
But instead I wonder
If I'm alive
It really is confusing
All of this musing
I wonder if it will end
With something unoffending?

A Dream of terrible clarity

tree deep trunk
rooted coarse wrinkled with time
waiting for the water to reach down
into the ground, into the soil
bodies waiting around the edge
lifeless and gagged, women gray, green, yellow
blue and putrid
silenced by time and again
waiting to be relieved
unable to move
stay still
the voices call
as the oceans waves dance
creation and destruction
they remain bound
in their empty wombs
hollow and unfed
muted by the roar of the currents
moving in on the shore
mother is gone
dead by the seaside
you will hear from her no more
she cannot speak
she cannot sing
she cannot cry