rohnbayesjourney

an espresso with no sugar

sitting in the cafe
in Barcelona rock n roll reggae
playing on the speakers and
coffee in a cup black on white
an espresso with no sugar
a plaza with a cross on a
moorish pedestal a church
a dog barking a pigeon on
the wall shadows in the
dirt murmuring people
voices in different languages
sunglasses by my iphone
pen with paper
uno beinte says the lady

infinite

there are an estimated 10 billion stars in our galaxy
and an estimated 10 billion galaxies in the universe
that would be 10 billion billion stars

some think it's 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
that's 3 hundred thousand billion billion stars

i think it's infinite

the heat

holy suffering suckotash
the hot summer days of texas
from the view point of the reckless brown grasses
protecting the dusty dry dirt
is pretty much 'what lawn?'

as most of it is thistles and stalk
talking all night long amongst themselves
in a whispery voice about the baby birds
dying in their own nest (as if i didn't know this) the brave mom
helpless against the onlslaught no bugs

no worms no suckotash it's bleak vinegar
and gall it's beaten and shriveled
the desiccated acacia and it's spiny horns

gestures to the dry empty sky reminding
me to look out for thorns
in the grass where i ride
my bike the broken glass in the street
and the trees by the side

have painted themselves
the color of rain their only way
of praying i once was a tree with a friend
in a play on a stage by the river
downtown

and our part was to dance when
pam came out and we did i
remember i remember I
remember how we swayed
how it rained

for a friends friend

sometime we spend here
then we go home
years or months for some it's only days
the illusion of a life breaks free from it's moorings and
floats out to sea would be
another metaphor for this land where we
lay metaphor and pun and love and relax you know
what comes later we only dream about in a hammock
with a mockingbird in our ear a cat in the bush and blue
sky way up there