Rain

Rain
Keep me company
While I'm lonely
Parched
and Dry

Rain
Keep me green
Keep my eyes

A
Wet
Happy
Dry

Rain
Keep me still
Pitter
Patterin'
Into
Peace

Rain
Keep me alive
While
My soul's
Wanderings
Cease

Springtime

Who will sow a life complete

Deep burrowing into the ground?

Who will wait for 

The Crashing Rains

To pound 

And then unpound?

Who will tend the seedlings 

Once their cheery heads 

Spring up

Once their smiling buds

Dance in glee 

In springtime's first sun up?

Who will patiently dream through winter

And hope and think and plan

Turning heart to frozen ground 

Lying there 

Vibrating there

In its itching to be dug, and tilled, and lanced?

Who will caretake and husband

The breathing, gritty, grainy clay

Smiling
Sighing 

In its breasting 

Of leftover bulbs

From last year's winter's day?

Evening Birds

Day sighs wearily
Evening falls gently
I dig my way from my car
Across this needle-pained sidewalk of exhaustion
To home's front door

Chirpy, happy birdsongs
Weaving thru golden rays 

Fill my heart
Lift my head
"The joy of the Lord is my strength."

Keys fall on countertop
in perfect rhythm
with my humming
filling
thrilling
my hope-filled
mind
my feet catch up and
I dance in the kitchen
Over a giant pan
Of seasoned taco meat

Ol' Crow

Ol’ Crow

Nah nobody wah you ‘round ‘ere

Try so go fly away

Over de high-a-way

Stop peck, peck, peckin'

Enna hecklin’ ma spirit

Diggin’ claws inna ma shoulders

Dat burdened all along

Wid auddah tings lyk

Happiness ‘n Joy

Ol' Crow
Ya songs a mourningful
Nah gah no help fa ma soul
Nah gah no riddim fa ma feet
Ol' Hemingway sey
We cah be destroy
But nevah defeat

You see me 'ere now?
I gone clear
Up to de heavens now
Justa mi enna ma Jesus
Mi hear His love
So strong 'pon ma ear
Mi nevah hear a warblin' word
From ya miserable head