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.

 

 

Cabo Polonio, Uruguay. Ask my kids how great sand surfing was with the wind snapping at out heels. Don't ask about Punto del Diablo. Never. Please...

Cabo Polonio, Uruguay. Ask my kids how great sand surfing was with the wind snapping at out heels. Don't ask about Punto del Diablo. Never. Please...


 

In Patagonia in Parque Torres del Paine in a stiff wind in lily's hair.

I make a video for each of my four kids on their 16th birthday. This is Reedy's. Honored and humbled to do it.

One of our first days in Argentina. Did't realize I was shooting at 60frs until after. Almost weirdly captures the character of each kid. I guess they never stop being themselves...