Hello Hemingway
(a hello nod to all)
I resurface clutching
my drink and my pen

I am not on the edge of where I should be -- 
rather I am slicing silver thin along
             the edge of my every thought

living in each shallow breath of the day
so deeply
I don't know how the time remains to think
about each and every one of us

             and yet I do

I suppose I create 
Time in my own hands

in which I catch every drop of human being

and in this world
my self dissolves
(a farewell cheers to me)

I am walking weightless on
the spontaneous lightness of being

I know well it is ephemeral
but onward anyway
        I swim

so sweet is
the Idea of people
collective words in our mouths
the warmth of Thought

so acrid the truth of being
my loss of breath
the Death of hope

you next to me
so
     so far 

-- fire in my mind
take me Home
the world has chilled my valor

my spoken legs
stand no more

i am the ghost of a shadow

homing fingers
stab into earth 
starved for chemical talk

bleeding from the signal     
                  
                  cut

trapped screams are mass effect -- 
free the silenced spleen 
        and breathe -- 

through fog and murk
chemical friends swim their way

fingers motile through media swamp --
your mind scatters as you concentrate 
but you are no island

fingers talk and interlock: 
we are a galaxy of nervous thoughts --
our minds a creature that dances to be free