i know that lizards like jelly, because i have fed wild geckos on the roof of my hut in the seychelles islands. she was called the morning lizard, and i would drop clear from the tips of my for her to drink, and drop gobs of silly flavored jelly on the counter for her to lick.
i know that it is possible to become intimate with a stranger, from a distance, across time and continents, because i have before a young master in a very private tea ceremony. i him move, whisk, wipe, fold, touch, offer, drink, enter, exit,
well one wasn't so good. i debuted at carnegie hall. i been homeless, panhandled on the streets. i have death, and birth, and graduation. i have told to leave, and invited to stay. i went to a big new years eve party in new city, with many famous people, the mayor, baryshnikov, jessica lange, i was at the opening of the which one best film that year. i was out of high school i was given the key to the of baltimore. what a kick. i'd like more of those. i was i am the highest point of my family tree. i call them to fruition, i sing them themes about the beautiful sky, but they cannot see it. there is a canopy above them, woven out of to grow. out of the legacy of pain. i call them but they do not come, they cannot come, no sun hits them. i have swum with in the open sea. i found ancient, nails on the shore. and written the boat, the sailors, and their homes , from one piece of survival. i up in a hospital, watching my brother die. i grew up in a hotel room , watching my mother bring home over food.for our dinner. i have cried my self to sleep by the cold sea, with no coat or blanket or for the phone, and awakened in the warm sun, in his arms, hearing his grunts and the rustling of his leaves, his great and measured by these things, and so love became a calm, and i have run back to the the completed, weakened by love, me back to the hunt my i have turned my back to the sunrise hotel rooms and called out the name of the setting sun from the floor been where it was happening i made it happen i have walked down tiny lanes alone, for i have planned i have carved into moderation i my own shadow i have attacked by droves of red ants. by crazy by crazy i have been all the way, by someone, now and then but he is always too to stay then and i him for loving my weakness i have been in a helicopter, flying over the alaskan glaciers, and i have been in the concord, than sound. as much as i have learned camouflage, i have left my broken body on the at dusk i been in a jet the oxygen masks dropped i came out to the car and my daughter was from her car seat. she had me in. all of it is over and over again. i have skiied, water skiied, in the water, i have played baseball and cards. i chess at 8, when i learned my funny valentine. i met bob dylan. He me a poet. i rode with maximilian shell, and leonard cohen in the same elevator.on different