Marionette 

Be my DJ baby 
Spin what you know slays me

Play no well-worn grooves
Compel all my moves

Latin if you please
Rock my world with ease
Soul will find its way
New Age and I may

Now -I don’t mean maybe
Be my DJ baby

Chord

This will be a song
Written slowly with red
On parchment scroll 
In an ancient language
For a foreign instrument
By the blind forced to see
In the dark

This will resonate 
From the hammer, anvil and stirrup
To the prefrontal cortex 
Ending with the heart
For some
And for others 
Those fleeted fifty-two bones

Glass Promise: A Haiku

 All I can ask you
For God’s sake please do grow up
For your sake grow up


It won’t come to pass
Neither the song nor the dance
Played out in your head


Those weren’t your slippers 
That was not your glass carriage
That was not your crown


You asked a promise
I’ll give you this: keep walking
The music will come

smiles beginning

Do you choose the music you wrap yourself in 

Or does it choose you

How does it begin

I’d lay bets you reach out

With willowy fingers 

And some silken spider’s web smiles

And ensnares you as you thoughtlessly smile back

Coaxing it close around you, knowing you’ve no need to grasp

And this music and this you and this ease 

Finds us ensnared in the silk and the silly

Smiles beginning