A Poem Traveled Down My Arm (2 page)

6

Fifty years
to see
the flower
at
my birth.

7

Snake
they
separated
us.

Feed
the
stranger
under
your
coat.

8

The dead
do not
have
long
to wait
for birth.

9

She
comes
from
heaven
unannounced

10

Birth
is
so
endless

Who
dies
being
born?

Love
your
friends.

We do not
know
anything
think
of that.

To remember
is
to plan.

11

River runs
from us;

Lake sees.

Mind
shine.

12

Leonard
was right
to
love
Virginia.

Virginia
was
right
to be
insane.

Who can
bear
to know
what evil
lurks
in our bowl
of peas?

13

Who is
in charge
loses.

Inflation
is
prelude.

A million
blessings
no one
home
in us.

14

What is
a promise
if
not
your
hand
in mine?

Fearless
lie down
beside me
I cannot
bite emptiness.

The straight
path
follows
an endless
curve.

15

When we
have changed
everything
we will eat
congratulations
with
our tea.

No one
can end
suffering
except
through
dance.

Who dives
knows
water
ways.

16

Why not
choose?

What is
this
cradle
(of civilization)

but
the
grave?

Do not
cling
to being
lost.

What hair
we here!

Mandela
Douglass
Einstein

Between assassination
suicide
living
happily.

17

Understanding
war
I do not
harm
myself.

The Navy
so
loud
whales cannot
believe
our
silence.

Silent Spring
birds
even we
have lost
our
voice.

The crushed
teapot
in
the rubbish
of the
bulldozed
house
will sing
in your
ears
forever.

That is
the law.

The more
intelligence
the fewer
wars
children.

Not buying
war
grief
remains
unsold.

Neither
the war
nor
the
infant
was sent
to save
us
from
our
fate.

What do Indians dance
into
their dance?

Recognize
karma
y
el
destino.

Who taught us
to ask
for
that
which
makes
us
weep?

Why is
Earth
saying
yes, yes
smiling?