THEORY AND ISMS

Big Band Theory

The orchestra was tuned,

we saw that it was good –

so who fired the conductor?

Fundamental

We swim to begin,

fly when we die;

between there’s gravity

of hob-nailed boots and

hydrogen of dancing.

Darwinian

In socks and sandals

fresh from the sea,

lobster-like and bloated:

De-volution.

Extra-terrestrialism

They nest in wheat fields of my mind.  I feel their

curled, sleeping weight bend its fragile stalks.

Running along moonlit lay-lines, they form circles

and stand on hind legs, shadows tall as Stonehenge.

I know which thoughts are theirs: eyes coal-bright,

whiskers twigs of twitching hazel.

Twin Flames

Altar candles burn.

Millennial hope a moth

cremated by towering infernos.

Ultimism

Is it love that walks you

to the end of the world

and then says jump?

Optimism

Perhaps there is anger in old bones –

and disease as well as evil;

but surely love thickens soft flesh

and untaints fresh blood knitting the new?

H2O

Fluid particles, flowing together but apart,

we are the agents for change

energies of our shared journey make us.