Lean

Wisdom is cruelty

It’s long past

Understanding and experience

It is somewhere

Between gluttony and

Purge gorge and

Obesity and finally

Loss of weight

Once one understands

That gathering things

Makes life unbearable

Do

I do do things

I eat to eat

I write to write

I love to love

Just by doing things

Absent of any pleasure

Or any other reward

Makes doing these things

Pure crystalline and unencrypted

Fools

I’ll make this short

I know that love

Is folly but I’d

Rather be a fool

Who is in love

Than a wise man

Without foolishness is enviable

Whereas wisdom remains alone

FallPoetry

Fall is like poetry

Leaves are like words

They start like shade

Under which to hide

Then move and shimmer

Swooshing their own melodies

Turning slowly into something

Else like whispered affection

Bursting with colorful meanings

And slowly dropping dancing

Twirling and landing bringing

Joy and kicking crackles

Oh how I do

Love poetry and fall

AutumnAgain

There’s something about fall

That brings such comfort

Brilliant colors and awe

Trees exploding like fireworks

That last for days

Of layers put on

And eventually taken off

Like the armor we

Wear before meeting someone

And the nakedness after

Of once cold drinks

Migrating to warmer ones

While anticipating the holidays

We live in such

A fast world that

Autumn slows down reminding

That change brings beauty