What an artist does

walk in a dream of your own making

pick up a pencil and read your lines

I am a vessel 

a vessel that holds within it many planets of time

they spin within the shell

words bumping into images

remnants of thoughts 

lying like dust on every surface 

the slightest movement from a leaf

can set everything in motion

time has no set place to tack itself

at some point its aroused

by an image, a word, or a place 

we then find ourselves feverish 

incoherent to the thoughts

perhaps its just enough

that we release them 

onto paper, canvas, clay or metal 

then we can sleep again

unloading subconscious images and thoughts.

My thoughts reach out

december 23 2023

my thoughts reach out in the shape of a hand

fingers run over lines 

created and imagined 

the slightest touch obliterates

the origins must once again be created

at what cost,,,

is it an incomplete ending

the wrong ending

has one creation been sacrificed for another

was it selfish

was it sacrificial

or just plain exhaustion

I stand on footprints I cannot fill

the thought of years exhaust me

frightens me

who will hold my hand

or cradle me in their arms 

as my thoughts reach out

lines are drawn

imagines from another place

another dimension perhaps 

one cell created seeks others to survive

notes are created on white keys 

lips kiss the flute

the waves always reach for the shore

perhaps I haven’t found my shore