Bonsai of Thoughts: Eighty-Two

1. In love, truth...lies,
In lust, truth...truth.

2. What I don't borrow from,
I don't take words from either.

3. I took
you.
You took
the body.

4. In this heat of sand
I remember
the heat of first love.

5. Some die
to live.
Some live
to die.

6. Lust without price,
price without lust—
what a cruel price!

7. Another winter...
the lone chair in the garden
still breaking.

Father used to sit there.

8. The dust from my child's
feet...
first youth's
achievement.

9. Summer's hailstorm
slaps
the window glass;
saving me.

10. Winter sun
leans down a little
draws maps on skin.

11. The lips' thirst
burns helplessly
in coffee.

12. Spring sun
chases winter's sorrow,
heals sorrow's winter.

13. Kitchen far away...
cooking even farther...
only the fragrance near.

14. Full moon...
each shadow-body,
each cry
of dogs.

15. Through dense fog
the glow of sunset
murders the night.

16. From distant hills
melody comes to mind
to keep the moon company.

17. Cut the grass, but...
spare the wildflowers.

18. Wherever you go
with the clouds,
when rain touches you
you'll find me there.

19. Your two eyes
are at once
closed and open...
like the horizon.

20. Shore far away;
in deep water
swimming, swimming
toward the shore.