A Poem Written June '06

Suddenly
Devastated
Beautiful

Defiantly
Resistant
Faithful

Bends like long bamboo
Falls like water from a leaf
Runs like a waterfall.

Tired
Stable
Undeterred

Bends like long bamboo
Falls like water from a leaf
Runs like a waterfall.

Fear
Searching
Emptying

Playing
Memorying
Branding

This place called home
Where we unpack
Belongings
And funny associations
Common nouns
And all obligation.

Bends like long bamboo
Falls like water from a leaf
Runs like a waterfall.

Very nearly like lovers
Who wake at the same time
And lead separate lives.

Caution
Sense
Foolish

Very nearly like being
Very nearly like rust
That appeared on
A well watered garden
Well it was once

Slurs
Shallow definitions : Tied ribbons.
Thickly buttons.

Never really mine
It is a state of being
An open garden.

Bends like long bamboo
Falls like water from a leaf
Runs like a waterfall.