Angel Sightings

The beaded flesh of a stony lizard: rite of passage

The beaded flesh of a stony lizard
on the skin a primitive warrior.
Isles of torment in a sea flesh.
The practitioner comes with sharp instruments
to write a brief history of pain on a young man to be.
It must be endured to know what it is to be a man.
A Gila monster with a tongue of flame.
Tasting pain on the wind.
Flesh and fire as one.
The branding horseflesh with heated iron.
Heated enough to get molecules jumping to higher energy states.
But not enough to want to abandon ship and all leap into the pool.

Angel Sightings

Portion of table of Contents:

Drops on a Wire 31
Lake Affect: Morning Sheen 33
Cat's paw and thunder at sunset 34
Stirring the drink 35
Falls 38
Gorged 39
Lake Land 40
Salt and Blue Skies over Badwater 41
Ancient Violence 42
Morning Ablutions 43
Shadow beaches 44
Glacial musings 45
Waterfalls 46
Sleeping on the mirror 48
Water signs 49
The Suns of Thunder 50
Paths to Nowhere 51
Blues for a blues man 52
Air Conditioned Crisis: Poetic Musings%u2026 53
Old Music 54
Thicket of Thistles 55
Brass Sky 56
The Day begins in Mist 57
Dark Light 58

Angel Sightings