Cloud of Owls
wild horse baby underneath the cloud of owls
lives in a secret kitchen by the sea
watches the paws of the moon invent all sound as comets shoot across the sky
chasing bright heat like a heartbeat chases blood in streams
and the tip of the heart is the tongue it's the same in everyone
but the tip of the comet could be knobby baby legs
like the last bit of fire is a new wild baby running!
What enchanted possibilities! What miraculous knowledge!
O to finally break free, a thread cut from the sun
O to finally break free, wind at back of the mind
Are we not boxed in by time? Are we not prisoners of time?
Time is hissing and we are spitting
Time is licking and we are shrinking
Time is tumbling and we are crawling
Time is nothing but we are! We are!
We sense in every grain a yes and in every shard of sun
Layers of delicacy overwhelmed instantly as all the affairs of fire come into action
Our free bodies our free bodies in the wind and in the rain
Our free bodies our free bodies chasing bright heat in bloodstreams
And around an endless maze of dreaming mind
Everyday has everything that every other day
Has had since the start of time alive
Baby you're wild
As young and old as everything endless
What wish has the world in it?
Are the senses in space without sensing?
Free young wild old baby living in the chase of the heat
Swimming in the run of the stream
As someone builds a house in Wyoming
Especially designed for the comet that will burst thru the atmosphere
And land on top of a pile of laundry in the basement