Film is not the Future
I started a book once titled, "Prayer Jokes for Sleepless Nights". This is from that.
Prayer For Training
I am training
rain to sit and rocks to run
not to be themselves in morning glory
moss lit like a synapse in silhouette.
I am loping across Okanogan,
Stehekin, Chatauqua, Clallam,
Alleghany, Kitsap, Cattaraugus:
cloud forest and hardscrabble,
oak trees and genocide.
fast bad men behind.
I drink flood tides
eat sunshine
the holy canvas of earth/mind
twisting like a forest path
lit by an ancient shaft of light.
Friend, carry a milagro in mind.
let the whisper of afterlife hum
like CNN or summer thunder
over the driving range.
Mother Milagro,
red hair swept in a sea breeze
wet knees, deep heart
your bottomless cup of giving
full of salt and salvation
marry me.
Throat meet ribs meet blood
meet sentimental footprints
in the rock record
long after we’re gone
knives drawn
light tight to hand
taming tempestuous weather
the task i'll ask of you
and you and you
wet grass say yes
to calloused feet.