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 drop clear ponds from the tips of my fingers for her to drink, and drop 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 knelt before a young in a very private tea ceremony. i him move, whisk, wipe, fold, touch, offer, drink, enter, exit,
this one wasn't so good. i have debuted at hall. i have homeless, panhandled on the streets. i witnessed death, and birth, and graduation. i been told to leave, and invited to stay. i to a big new years eve party in new york 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 kicked out of school i was the key to the city 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 above them, being woven out of determination to grow. out of the legacy of pain. i call them but they do not come, cannot come, no sun hits them. i have swum with turtles in the sea. i found ancient, nails on the shore. and about the boat, the sailors, and their homes , from one piece of survival. i grew up in a hospital, my brother die. i grew up in a hotel room , watching my mother bring home left food.for our dinner. i have cried my to sleep by the cold sea, with no coat or blanket or dime for the phone, and in the warm sun, in his arms, hearing his grunts and the rustling of his leaves, his great purring and measured by these things, and so love a fearful calm, and i have run back to the the completed, weakened by love, send me to the hunt my i have my back to the sunrise from hotel rooms and called out the name of the setting sun the desert floor i've where it was happening i made it happen i have walked tiny lanes alone, for miles i have revolutions i have carved myself into i my own shadow i have attacked by droves of red ants. by crazy by people i have carried all the way, by someone, now and then but he is always too to stay then and i hate him for loving my i have been in a helicopter, over the alaskan glaciers, and i have been in the concord, faster than sound. as much as i have learned camouflage, i have my broken body on the plains at dusk i in a jet when the oxygen masks dropped i out to the car and my daughter was gone from her car seat. she had me in. all of it is over and over again. i skiied, water skiied, raced in the water, i have played baseball and cards. i learned chess at 8, when i learned my valentine. i met bob dylan. He me a poet. i rode with shell, and leonard cohen in the same elevator.on different occasio