GOD’S TOOL

There is 

a hand

as large

as the sky.

Put–because you can–

a hammer

in it’s grip,

then see what happens.

Go ahead.

Imagine the rest.

Do it! because

you can. 

Because you

actually are

the hand, the hammer

and God.

Knowing this,

what will you

build now?

Imagine that!

LEVEE THE LUMNIOUS

Really, why would you?

That’s a kind of

entrapment, isn’t it?

Light deserves

to be free.

So let it be.

Let it flow, let it flood.

Invite the deluge in.

Watch what happens.

Watch how luminosity

becomes you.

THE FURROW IN THE GAZE*

Forgo, the plough

and the ox,

if you can. Sometimes

a single gaze

can tell you

all there is to know:

if the ground 

is fertile ground,

if there’s a harvest 

there to harvest.

*This title comes from Michael Foucault's, 

The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences

 MORTISE-AND-TENON

The fit is strong.

There is an

arts and crafts quality

to it. And yet

its give and take

are so basic,

blindly simple,

natural,

even coital,

you might say.

Isn’t this what 

we all want:

this kind of easy 

coupling?

To be joined at a table

with someone where

passions are

effortlessly offered

and received? –

and may have nothing

at all to do

with carpentry.

THE EVIDENCE

Look at it.

From every angle.

Get incisively close.

The story will come

from this place,

from the exacerbating details

you may find

yourself fetishizing.

Whatever story you arrive at

will be your version of

how to manage mystery,

the who-done-it

of what happened,

your version of trying

to uncover the proof

of truth within a world

of uncertainty.

You might say, story

is just a convenient way

to avoid too much ambiguity.

*Inspired by an interview with Errol Morris about the making of

 his documentary, The Thin Blue Line.