Emerging and Fading

Tree of Life

Everything floats among flowers and leaves. 

Jake's Room

Semi-transparent, unfiltered, this book is me. It features my writings, sketches, and uneddtied poems. 

Mirror

Inspired by Boris Pasternak's "Winter Night"

  
It snowed, it snowed across the world

At every turning.

A candle on the table burned,

A candle, burning.

As midgeflies swarm in summertime

Toward a flame,

Snowflakes swarmed from the dark outside

Against the pane.

The blizzard etched the glass with whirled

Arrows and circles.

A candle on the table burned,

A candle, burning.

And shadows lay together on

The lighted ceiling:

Entwining feet, entwining arms,

Twined fate and feeling.

Two slippers from the bed slid off

And clattered down,

The nightlamp wept its waxen drops

Upon the gown.

And all was lost in snowy murk

Snowgrey and blurry.

A candle on the table burned,

A candle, burning.

A draft blew on the flame. Temptation's

Heat raised aloft

Two wings that cast, as would an angel's,

A shadow's cross.

It snowed through February's end,

At every turning.

Time and again the candle burned.

A candle, burning.

Window Pane

Black Lung

She darts, A silver carp, A breathless heart, A poem’s start.

I chase to catch a glimpse, But she is gone.

Solemn I sit, a wordless pen, And search again, It’s nearly dawn.

A rustling leaf, A snapping twig, She reappears, A dashing fawn.

A mad pursuit, With pen in hand, A root, A tree, A lake, A man, I pause -

The water speaks the only truth I shall believe.

She looks me in the eye to say.

Only in drowning shall I find Eve.

Vessel

Play Music That Pierces the Heart

Life bursts through two discarded shoes. 

Life in Denim

Before the Bell Toll capture the moment of suspension before darkenss. The sun has nearly set, the candle has nearly gone out, icarus has nearly fallen. The moment is dramatic and saturated. The last light is the most magical. 

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