Sacred Fractions

Angels Twas two fifteen, when I awoke I’m getting old, & that’s no joke & there they were about the bins With open hearts, & mighty grins They just appeared, from there to here They’re on the earth, & somewhat…

Poems from the carpark Reilly Street They’re closing down the carpark, way down on Reilly Street Where freedom camper’s laugh & play, & nations smile & greet There’s Spanish here, & German too, & Dutch & French & Jew The…

Pilot Whale At Tuhuroa, we labour in, the pastures of the sea We’re German, French, & Kiwi too, & form community While all around we hear the sound of Upokohue The pilot whale, she’s on the scales, we fight to…

Reilly Street They’re closing down the carpark, way down on Reilly Street Where freedom camper’s laugh & play, & nations smile & greet There’s Spanish here, & German too, & Dutch & French & Jew The nations of the world…

Redneck Yes, woe to you, the prophet says Who turn from peace to redneck ways Who sneak around at 4 a.m. To hurl your rocks at sleeping men & women too, who do no harm But sleep beside a river calm…

271 My heart is alive in the heart of the All Dedicated to James Rano Dick (Hemi)  Today I think about a man Who touched my aching heart Who welcomed me with open arms Yet, now we are apart A…

270 Irrational qualities coming to urgent strength You gather stones as now you stand Before the raging giant As rational powers knot their brow On logic they’re reliant Yet something burns within your heart Beyond this philistine Irrational powers come…

269  The Self is the centre of the story I watch you slowly turn about The centre of the story Your inmost page does so amaze & wake in you a glory You see her now, she’s all about She’s…

268 Sustained Revelry; it hasn’t been able to clarify yet See now the fish do seek your net Beneath the marvelling moon Where greater mind to lesser mind Does send its swimming runes You write them down in disarray As…

Welcome ‘Now you’re coming to it; I welcome you in the name Of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost’ Beyond the reach of creed or book I bow my knee where none can look Unto…