Offerings and takings

Lurid offers

were whispered

in willing ears.

Suitable arrangements

were offered, strokes

and secrets, coin, skin.

The sun rose

as always, warm

and indifferent.

And all were blessed

deserving or not.

You can count on it.

Is

In the space with zero substance,
a hole without edges or dimensions,
and time had yet to abandon zero,

a thought within the infinite Mind

that held the infinite nothingness

became the everythingness:

the first instant of eternity.

Quarks and quacking ducks,

dust bunnies and swords, dandelions.

Ink and saxophones, bacteria.

Ballerinas, quarterbacks, artichokes.

I woke. I forgot to tell you,

what I dreamt as I slept

until the cat woke me with

a toe bean touch on my cheek.

And I wondered why my dream

was about the architectural

techniques of trap door spiders.