Yes I was ill

But You’re late

I know  

I was Depressed

You’re FIRED sign here

Thank you

I am feeling better already.

Aqua Dulce

Dad at first we went  with you cause

Mom wanted some peace from the ten of us.

We went  to a world where

Men brought deep water up  from the earth.

They laughed and cussed

at themselves in the Texas heat.

Lumbering tools bent deep,

Sweaty axle grease men

who shaped rope, cables, chains,

Pipe-wrenches and steel

into surgeon’s wands

Coaxing the nectar upward

Men who long new

the value of AQUA

Before it was bottled up,

Back when It  flowed freely

They knew how to go get it.

They knew they had to protect it.

You gave us all you had

A Livelihood and knowledge.

Now we drink your memory

like we drank the cool sparkling sweet water,

pumping out of the well.

Summertime, playing marbles with your little brother

Lagging crystals, bowlees, and cat’s-eye’s in the dirt

Hearing the barking of your saxophone

To the beat of square, circle, triangle, and star shaped notes

Vibrating through your window screen

Raked through each tinny opening  freely

Squawking bluesy rhythms escaped

Unlike your image hidden  in your dark underworld.

Us outside free in the sunlight with your music

Never saw your face, wondered, where you loosing your marbles like me?

I know now you had found them in that darkness.

Exhaling  into the Earth

Centering her skin

Initiating an opening

Spirit penetrates her fertile core.

Life pulls in all directions

Generating a globular shape

Death beckons the fruit to its funeral pyre.

Smoke, steam, and fumes billow

Dancing oxygen starved  onlookers

Timing their alchemic attack.

Clawing into hot coals and ash

Revealing  matured sustenance

Results of the sacred dance.

Fiery hot petals pealed open

Revealing rows of golden beauty of the gods.

Gingerly salting, biting membranes

Savoring, swallowing cells ruptured

Love’s released  essence.

Potter devours his a-maze-ing meal.

I hear you hurt ,

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