American Lights

Names on a map,
Hidden dangers,
Imagination conjuring them
Somewhere between
The seas’ scouring
And landfall’s edge.

Pamlico Bay; Cape Hatteras.

American lights
Stand proud and tapered
On brick and stone bases
Flashing warnings
Over beaches, lakeshores, seaways,
Over all the great waters.

Sabine River; Point Bolivar.

Balance Wheel

The mechanism on which

Fortune pivots,
Random invention,
Spills a tide of possibility.

Boyhood

He imagined tunnels
Under street and home
Passageways to heroism
Emerging from secret panels.

Succoth

Cattleshed

Broken by time 

Wilderness and woodland

Stiff trunked trees

Around a place

Of shelter.

Bloodlines

Ancestry and its other beginnings
Are as distant as time unmeasured.

Dusk

Heaven’s belljar curves over.

Hollowed #3

Scars beneath the skin
Don’t show
Night-surgery
Scooped out the soul
During sleep.