Kharma

“ . . .we all shine on/like the stars and the moon and the sun”
Instant Kharma, John Lennon


Gary you are in some country
Tonight New England is it snowing
The list of moments is stark
You play with your website
The final pieces of the reconstruction
Another vision from the deep
Waters you have always wandered
The ocean of humanness the bridge
You crossed in Massachusetts
A hundred years ago the times
We walked that alley on scarritt
Snow crunching under my
Salvation army shoes
Planetary excess still a friend
& when you thought of me
Did you think of what it means
To trust someone? I wonder.
I lost so much when those
Ghosts left this latitude for the north
The reflection dimmed, the question
Came. I lost you. I lost the others
Gary your moments are still
The jeweled connections to
The Starry Dynamo (Kerouac)
And I can feel myself spinning
And I am shining, again.

5/2004