fringe selvedges

the loose end of poetry

River Ridge

The face –
Of your future
Is fickle, with fate

As it traces –
Your present
And your will, to relate.

Palm City, FL – November, 2019

Wasteland

Rolling waves of present
Rustle throughout my mind
Wondering if each new moment
Will be the potential
I seek, to find.

Ft. Collins, CO – October, 2019

Arms of Brothers

Away, and so far
When goes, does the one
As I sit, and I think
And I scream, as I run

And it’s here, not so far
What I seek, to be done
So it’s a choice, through my mind
To find the way, to have won.

Madison Square Garden, Mark Knopfler – Sept, 2019

Foothills of Piedmont

Echoes, of darkness
Swirl –
Through the mind

Poking pinpricks, of starkness
Undetermined –
What to find.

Chattahoochee River, Columbus, GA – September, 2019

Cemetery Trail

Racing into slowness
Breaking from decline
I snap back into focus
As the mind –
Returns to mine.

Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford, CT – August, 2019

Refraction

Whispers, into screams
Becomes, my only means
As the moment –
Evolves,
Into my dream.

Bras-Coupe, Maniwaki, QC – August, 2019

Mateo

Breaking from all reason
Running through its mind
I fight to find the beauty
From the things –
I hate to find.

Durham, NC – August, 2019

Huntsville

Breathe.
Acknowledge your present
Invite a vow
By becoming the focus –
Of your immediate
Now.

Wilkes-Barre, PA – July, 2019

Bay Street

When the light
Of cold reason
Goes dark, on display

It highlights
The moment
That life, finds its way.

San Francisco, CA – July, 2019

Percent Solid

Driving through my timeframe
I hear the roar of now
As I’m the present tension
From the cry, that questions how.

Spartanburg, SC – June, 2019