TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE

To build a Time Machine          then kick the dirt
in another generation         
                    Then build another
Time Machine in that time    Time within time?


            Forever wanting to be
Where Silence is      & I mean peace          I’m there
In my mind where there is no loss of speech
        No status to gain in the rancid detergent
                    of the world
That which ignites the quiet earth
of our sojourns
                Like a “soundless explosion”

in the middle of the ocean
pushing fossils to the forefront


To build a Time Machine       bending the air
Like a gift            Summery shield in my eyes
Hidden from the spirit realm


I could accept silence         stuck between stone
No ears to hear?
            Like a funeral without a body
            An unreachable piñata


To accept the silence of impunity
        Is to shake the dew


From the roses in the cool of the morning
As if a former love had left them there


To fiddle with your hope
        To savor those blessed memories


In a silence             that’s like poison
in the belly of a cruel king