Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 18, 2013
What marks the border between one life and another
Does a custom’s house check shipments
Does an agent review passport stamps
Does a ferryman collect coins
Does a saint count good deeds
Does a saint deduct evil deeds
Ignore the banalities in between
Perhaps a simple passage
To a roundelay of lives
Incarnated one after another
A rationale for glimpses
We have of other times
With equally diverse answers
About life love loneliness
Heaven hell purgatory
Or nothing whatsoever
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 17, 2013
America’s loneliness is not that
Of the long distance runner
A peculiar disconnection
Between a flurry of activities
And a presumptive solitude
Becomes a desperate drift
Emptiness at the edges
Of whatever’s been done
A circle with no center yet
Ever hopeful of salvation
If only in the early morning
Expectation of a better day
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 14, 2013
For all their scolding,
Stellar jays stand
In loyal obeisance
To their corvid roots.
But, all else is
Silliness and noise,
Shakespearean clowns,
Hide behind the
Shenanigans,
Ease the moment,
For tragedy,
For comedy,
So closely entwined,
Except the final curtain.
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 13, 2013
Kauai Jungle Fowl
Friendly birds on Kauai
If they had chins you
Could chuck them
Doves walk the porch
In case some breakfast or
Lunch made it to the floor
Once in awhile a cardinal
With no church affiliation
Jungle fowl visit as well
In all of their feathered finery
A hen came one time to see
what might be available
And chose the option of
My big toe under the table
Forever removing any possible
Diminution of the old saying
“Hen pecked” and its meaning
As a much more serious business
Than I would ever have imagined
If not for a revery incontestably
Interrupted by a definitive beak
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on February 12, 2013
I have no time for you
I whirl with the stars
A rush to infinity
At the very edge
Of the universe
In love with all
Of the women
Yet to evolve in
World after world
After world
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