watching dog star man / 'pressed

watching Dog Star Man

desirelessness by rule
most deem unattainable
I won't argue
because I don't desire
small gains or certainties
the desire I maintain
is that of true existence
surrendered to the cause
of making as much of
this as we can
but not for ourselves
individually
but us, we
there are mere formalities
of constructive thinking
that shield many from
reali\zing their true tangible
tenuous relationship with
each and every object
they sense solely


'pressed

a smile under blue eyes
on the constitutional course
one of a multitude missiles
whose meaning I'd prefer to
remain in self-insistant mystery
for revelations read like
new sets of rules or possibilities
while my pose ping-pong's 'tween
placid and 'plosive
or orgones gone soaring
so far from somewhere
and yet found readily
through reflections
soulward
that is to say
back and forth forever
so just smile back
splash without rocks
on each shore as if it
were an undiscovered land

Poems: "watching dog star man" "'pressed" by Robert Lescatre
Icon: "Kateri Tekakwitha: Icon of Otherness" by Robert Lentz