So I endeavor 

To have less and to be more

Birds are migrating 

Goodbye says the sun

To the hazy blue mountains

Her rays create gold 

In another world

 Replaying fading memories 

Like videotape 

I hear meadow larks

And a thousand blades of grass

Summer softly sings 

Submerged and sluggish 

Stumbling through summer rain

Drowning sinking lost

This deep ocean rift

Standing firm between us all

Tearing us apart 

Mid summer rain falls

Skin drenched and eyelashes drip

Thunder breaks my heart 

I feel the blood rush

A light head and dizzy toes

I’ll never forget 

The cool evening breeze

Running fingers through my hair

A snatched memory

I have escaped from

This eternal November

Sunflower seeds sprout

The clear morning air

Watching birds swoop and bees buzz

Awake soul awake

Sleepy eyelids droop

Like flowers gently wilting

Another day ends 

So many questions

Bouncing around in my head

I’m unravelling 

Through the marble run

Ear drums rattle a tattoo 

A piercing war cry 

Hazy mist layers 

Settle over my mistakes

And I remake them 

Under white canvas

Under the silver moonlight 

Under a black star

Ideas are fragile 

Budding like tiny flowers 

Until you crush them 

My memory leaks

Holding on to detritus 

Like a beach comber 

In moonlight shadows

In the soft hoot of an owl

In campfire smoke

Just like a black hole

Sucking out all of my life 

But I blame myself 

My salty wet face

Sinking under cloud and sea

Back where I belong 

Mountains of regret 

Bury the last of my dreams

In headlights frozen

Blue bottle clouds swarm

Clamouring out for fresh meat 

The circle complete 

After the black storm 

Cloud mountains roll over us 

Words I can’t undo