I want more 
than anything else 
to be known 
as a simple 
man who wrote 

what his heart 
knew and what 
his soul said 
what his eyes 
saw and his 

mind heard and 
that is all 
that I ever 
want anyone to 
know about me 

Now I want 
to go deeper 
and not farther 
for far I
have been but 
rather deep into 
the crevices and 
cracks of the 
crevasse I am 
to mine and 
find the nuggets 
buried there when 
I was born 

Now 
I am
that I am
this
now this 
that I am
I am
now 

From my windows
I hear the 
night distant caterwauls 
speed somewhere else 
and the death
of day in
this humid silence 
I feel nothing 
but quiet peace 
the pain of 
life a blanket 
I’m a simple 
man falling asleep 

The difference 
between order 
and chaos 
is simple 
order is
light and 
chaos is 
dark order 
is rain 
and chaos 
is thunder 
order is 
snow and 
chaos is 
black ice 
order is 
peace and 
chaos is
life damned