Friday, October 4, 2024

SkyKu (Autumn)


North 33 degrees 42 minutes 29.80 seconds
West 111 degrees 54 minutes 2.81 seconds



jupiter rising
the moon near high noon a storm 
cell depletes southeast 
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an owl dives over 
the roof’s edge careens down to
the scrub for a kill
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sky flash     flash    —flash-flash
rain drops tattoo the flagstone
rosemary and sage
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storm lurks over dark
creosote brushed washes swell
with muddy water 
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over grown palo 
rocks sand trash bags and lightning
strikes over four buttes  
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rain brings revival
from desert’s dry cracked soil
toads whir with crickets
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see the leaves, stare at 
the rocks—listen to the breath 
of wind between branches
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a bright star stage right 
cassiopeia over 
Jupiter pin point 
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in the moonlight a 
moth dances on my lips in
the abyss of sky
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stars are no comfort 
on our mortal earth tonight
eons old ghost light
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waning crescent moon
cruising in over the buttes
its 2:32 am
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there is orion   
rising in the east  moon  soon
jupiter shines bright
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there is a poem
a sliver of amber moon 
softly lifting cool
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taking a piss on
the rocks a shadow moves to
a tarantula!
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cacophony in silence 
beginning black moon 
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jupiter between 
branches belt of orion
spans east on the buttes
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all the owls come back
fly into the neighborhood 
when a horse brays out
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sitting watching stars
all night in silence moths dive 
attack my forehead 
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east, a meteor 
streaks across orion’s chest
low on horizon
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its monday morning 
I chew up and spit out like 
thorn apple flowers
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no god can hear our
music we dance under stars
before we evolved
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everything you can’t 
see wants to see you tonight
in the dark desert
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a spider visits
like Brando in Last Tango
curls into a ball
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a mirage of storms
fence in the last hard hot town
the rain clouds disperse
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dusk is cool and damp 
moon and venus set in the 
blue west a star dies
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coyote steps soft
among the rocks this morning 
searching for water
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star constellations
moon falls west past the yucca
near the wild flowers
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strong moonshine shadows 
tattooed on the stucco walls
a wolf spider tans
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cloudy but no moths
nor sound of animals near
a motionless night
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big owl lands on roof
head turns wings expand body  
drops into shadows
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cloudless skies at night 
full harvest moon coyote 
pups break the silence
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orion rises 
east falling star waning moon 
plays out in the south
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high drifting clouds back 
lit with moon as tapestries 
multi-stitched universe
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waiting for god-owl
or ghost of Euripides
moon with orion
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chasing jupiter 
with star spica east over
the dark wall of buttes
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the dark matter drops
meteor towards jupiter 
moon orion east
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struck by the lightning
beneath the dead saguaro
are fingers of glass
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a banded gecko
looses the stalking contest  
to the grasshopper
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bruised horizon crowned 
cracks of piano lightning
late night earth prayer 
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scent of rosemary
creosote, acacia
mesquite and sage drift
 
a low bean moon south 
soft glow with dried prickly pear
fruit on river rock
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even the gods are 
dead under the history 
of a bright full moon
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through the trees the wind 
blew the backyard gate open 
orion spans east
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perseids peaking
they’re popping all over the 
space in my pupils
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coyote’s shadow 
walks between landscape lighting 
moves on stucco wall
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pink quartz mars glints through 
the palo verdes standing
along the dry wash
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carved on a rock some
30,000 years ago
distant star explodes 
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the eon lantern 
the choir inside your skull
soul moves into flesh
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The Alexandria Library 48 BC
The Brazilian Museum 2018 CE
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moon and mars are seen
at autumnal equinox
near capricornus
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planet alignment 
east moon saturn jupiter 
venus starry sky
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autumn hum trees leaves 
eyes rhythms catechism
gold sonnets of souls
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the one baby cloud 
evaporates like love in 
moon light so quiet
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fly a kite over 
tree of life the harvest moon 
antiquity quilts
 
palm tree silhouette
cobweb clouds moon amber east 
above the dark buttes 
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a heavy down pour 
floods gulches high in the hills
here it is quiet
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jupiter low in 
the east orion over 
the superstitions 
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moon holding water 
straight down over the highway
a flash bulb explodes
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heading up to the 
roof the sun has set and the 
stars will fall tonight
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it’s cold out here as 
if hunted by ghost darkness
dew blurs coats the eyes
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dark night as the shadow
batman and zorro sink
into the le brea tar pits
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indigenous language
evolves inside our inner ear
follow the tongue in music
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no longer to 
hang out w/ 
god at 3am
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indian summer 
fires burn in the mind
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tiny star near the  
edge of the moon orion
jupiter due east
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70/30 
blood water land flesh they mesh
in the human dance
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last night Anselm Hollo 
talked to me in a dream 
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upper atmosphere 
moon illuminates contrail 
like line of cocaine
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owls there’s two talking
one is close across the street
the other north east
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owls carry off the
call to give their location
they like to eat mice
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coyotes wail quilt 
patch clouds
orion pulls south
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east big dipper low
north horizon— pleiades 
fast moving high clouds
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long airplane contrail 
cuts moon halo in half like
a math equation
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when god blows out the 
candle back in the big bang
frog jumps in kerplunk
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jupiter rising 
orion high meteors 
catching me off guard
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jupiter low east
below sirius shining 
below orion
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soft half moon light low
westerly rooftop shadows
all points east the stage
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mid day gray dark cool 
rain forgotten love songs drift 
as radio waves
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cactus wren lands and 
stares at me a hummingbird 
hovers near my head
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languid evil eye 
moon rose orion through black 
ironwood branches
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the acacia 
slumbers in heavens breezes
javalina sneezes
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full silence full empty void
meditation pulling all 
the oceans on earth
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tipping the crust on 
the quick cool song in autumn 
full stark white plate moon
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tonight under these 
meteor showers would you 
use a bar of soap?
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someday all the rich 
folks will move to mars and die 
the rest of us cheer
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now all weather is 
godzilla weather spring fall
summer and winter
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listen to autumn and monk
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water permeates 
rock even the universe
even dark matter
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orion is east 
storm clouds disperse amazing 
the dark universe
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the pin pricks of light 
are camp fires in space-time
ancient trees of life
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large oval cocoon
storm cell pregnant with lightning 
winds and sheets of rain
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being dances with
extinction the world sleepwalks 
in our mind tonight
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low east orion 
rising amber crescent low 
west beneath the clouds 
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water hangs like pearls 
on the edge of the iron 
white spiral staircase
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petroglyphs show the
earth as sacred deity
carved into the rock
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mars trading its rust 
color with the setting moon
private jet flies by
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half moon resting west 
gold layers of refracted 
light the desert edge 
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T monk rides foxtrot
sol fill sing co-pay shon tic 
tac town mid-night lights
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one half reaps one half 
grows waiting for orion
moon and mars tango 
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dark silhouettes west 
there are lion dragon clouds 
a deep wild canvas
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2:30am 
god falls in the universe
operas fill ears
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morning poetry 
dark autumn night starry sky
bequeath eye doctor
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fluffy moonlit cloud 
moves fast over mountains east  
framing orion
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in love- the whole world 
falls away where time meets space
flowers trees our graves
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moon like a train light 
inside a foggy tunnel
that never arrives
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the six rattlesnakes 
in my life never killed me
listening is the key
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morning christopher
hope a seaside sings soft mist 
vibes for you this year
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wait its 3 am
when everyone is asleep
when planes stop flying
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machines stop humming
and the heavens open up 
all the stars will dance
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a swan guitar pick 
a shimmering pastoral 
stars infinitum
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clouds stare as wolf face 
peripheral orion 
early star gazing
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find the center of 
gravity in your wheelhouse
let the river flow
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not flying to mars
occupy sesame street
instead for god’s sake
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now that all is done
only thing left is the end 
of all existence
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there is a new moon 
and somewhere there's an eclipse
let me check my list 
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venus rising up
taurus star aldebaran
good enough for me
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clouds are breaking up 
nice night for the naked eye
the sky’s the limit
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moths still fly faster 
than a falling star tonight
3am hour 
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wind at 3 am
the holy ghost the story 
without using ink
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it was just 11:11:11 pm - 11/12/13
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the owl on a branch
in the moonlight in the tree 
looks on looks away
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one huge storm cell split
in two directions I am 
bathed in the moonlight
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moon is setting west 
orion high jupiter 
east add meteors
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the point that pivots 
eternity in the eye
of the beholder 
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now jupiter east
orion lifting battle 
club attacking moon
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a butterfly flies 
away and now memories  
dad son holy ghost
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jupiter out-shines 
the moon through clouds now that is 
a big ass planet
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sleep, the library
when you wake up the world is 
quiet and waiting
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november embers 
smolder leaves roots rust soil
a place to gather
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ancient star low long 
the moon shadows and cool winds
smell of burnt coffee
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falling stars west north 
west silver then greenish bright 
a blast of crisp light
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incredible how 
they fly these new meteors
no need for clearance 
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3 coyote this 
morning crossing the dark road
with the cooing quails 
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moonlight in eyesight 
bright love fallen tree shadows 
move in autumn winds
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a cactus wren lands 
in a puddle of water
cleaning her feathers
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earth half polluted 
half filled with undiscovered 
life for our children
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clouds east revealing  
orion rising above
autumn desert hills
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when meeting God tell 
him to go to Africa 
and read a good book
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let your toes grab the 
ground before your brain ruins
the experience
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dream tonight and sink 
inside the warm earth and rise 
to a bright morning
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orion over 
my shoulder at 3am
mind your own business
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morning mountain mists 
a hummingbird perched inside
woven strands of hair
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a hawk on a butte  
flew from my view before I
could take the picture
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the owl parallels 
my car headlights flies across 
my hood swoops away
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mind like a goat’s horn 
overflowing with flowers 
food for the sun god
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reading William Blake 
by the lake drinking sake
beside an ink well
(In Tlaquepaque)
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over the country 
over the city the jets 
blink like scorpions 
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when I brush my hands 
against a rosemary bush
deep blue aroma
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birds fly through the space
between gravity and time 
sun, moon, dawn to dusk
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blood crescent moon sinks 
west in soot tonight you can
smell the burning sage
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erupting in the
fires on the radio 
balloon universe
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moon breaking through clouds 
east around the ironwoods
and the saguaro
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