For Buzz Aldrin

the gravity of fame
always pressed harder
than the Sea of Tranquility.

In/Tolerance

Why does tolerance so easily
come to feel so repressive?
Because as we seek acceptance,
the tolerance that we are given
marks the line between acceptance
and rejection for who we now are,
which before we were newly 'tolerated'
seemed arbitrary and over-defined. 

The Devil's Grooming

in self superiority
is always harder to follow
than we like to realize.

In Every Recession

'less' becomes the new 'more'
and the new 'more'
is always administered
by people for whom thrift
starts and ends with other folk. Not them.

History

never runs out
of ideas to recycle
and never stops
recycling old ideas.

In The Darkest Place

The smallest light casts the most contrary shadows.
Most of us don't want to know about these places,
or where they are, we are scared of the change
that comes from, even briefly, living there.

Unquiet Surrender

The Fall was Adam and Eve's first act of Creation.

Ever since then men have claimed
that they wanted to return the power
of choice, and the temptation to failure,
back to who they credit as their creator
only to discover how unwilling they were
to subdue their lives, in quiet surrender.