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 ponds the tips of my fingers for her to drink, and drop gobs of silly flavored jelly on the counter for her to lick.
i that it is possible to become intimate with a stranger, from a distance, across time and continents, because i have knelt before a young master in a very private tea ceremony. i him move, whisk, wipe, fold, touch, offer, drink, enter, exit,
well this one so good. i have at carnegie hall. i been homeless, panhandled on the streets. i have death, and birth, and graduation. i have been to leave, and invited to stay. i went to a big new years eve party in new york city, many famous people, the mayor, baryshnikov, jessica lange, i was at the opening of the film which one film that year. i was out of high 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 about the beautiful sky, but they cannot see it. there is a canopy 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 with turtles in the open sea. i found ancient, nails on the shore. and written about the boat, the sailors, and their , 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 cried my self to sleep by the cold sea, with no coat or blanket or dime 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 love by things, and so love a fearful calm, and i have run to the storm the lion completed, by love, send me back to the my i have turned my back to the sunrise hotel rooms and called out the of the setting sun from the desert floor i've been where it was i have made it i have walked down lanes alone, for miles i have revolutions i have myself into moderation i my own shadow i been attacked by droves of red ants. by horses by crazy i have been all the way, by someone, now and then but he is always too tired to stay and i hate him for loving my 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 my broken body on the plains at dusk i been in a jet when the oxygen 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 occasio