one mind

Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even though you are awake.

-Matthew Flickstein, "Swallowing the River Ganges"

parting

i turn away

her whispered comforts
cupped within my ear
born there as waning echoes
are gone

my yearning hand
held softly to the wound

trembling in loss
within
its very egg shell life

the words to which I cling


shuddering trees watched
when we could not, certain
all tears would loose
let wash our hearts

a silence gapes
as i replay the prayer

hearing it still
i cannot live to think
that darkness wins


I wait enclosed, if need
forever
until her sun bursts on

hurled in faith
as bends the sunflower

an empty embrace
reaching at light's arc

ever facing
where she gracefully walks

Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)

Hey...sister love
Hey...sister soul
Hey...oh my love
You turn me around tonight
Hey...sister love
Save my soul, save my soul

Hold on to love, hold on to love
Love won't let you go
Love won't let you go
Hold on to love
See the sunshine in her soul

Hey...sister love
Hey...seems so bright
She comes like carnival
She is the big wheel
She turned my head around
Turned my head around
She is the speedway
She is the slipstream
She is coming 'round

Hold on to love
Hold on to love
Love won't let you go
Hold on to love
Hold on to love
She the sunlight in her song
See the sunlight in her soul

She is the gun fire
She is the car crash
She is a avalanche
She is the thunder
She is the waves and
She pulls me under

I love you 'cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you 'cause I understand
That God has given me your hand
He holds me in a tiny fist
And still I need your kiss

Hold...on to love
Hold...

She the sunlight in her song
See the sunlight in her soul

-- U2

land of the free

"Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates."

-- "When a Vehicle Serves as Home, Troubles Abide," NYTimes.com, 4-01-0