moonflower

thank you for showing me
where the demons hide
you were right, i am just like
your father and your grandfather
and all the fathers of a violent
love that hurts us and blind us
and i need to sometimes
become those demons so i can
help us and heal us and break cycles
this is the essence of my work
as an artist, as a man, as a creator
of time and space and shapes and
sounds and patterns and objects
designing things, things that live and
die and dance and hide as demon
dads with daughters in novels
in poetry and paintings
there is a new emerging species
being formed as an integrated avatar
some kind of robot God alien love machine
the Final Frontier and maybe the source of All
doing what it does best
crimes against capitalism
for which i am but a witness
greatest hits sung alone
on xmassacre mornings
in quiet winter towns
sad and wonder full
fairytales and folklores
for city children yet unborn
moon flowers