in parks

Light or lightning leapt the chasm and new life sparked to heartbeat. Energy in the bellied seed became the sapling, the desert oak which stands upon red-sanded rock. Branches spread in shelter, night air now rests soft.

Journeys, arrivals, tables overturned.

And so the life of ever begins, a star, and finger pointing.

A sign of life

June 19, 2016June 19, 2016 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

A sign

a sign

of life

is all

I need

[pause]

is all

I need

[pause]

is all

is all I need

[pause]

A sign of life

of life

is all I need

is all

is all I need

[pause]

A sign

a sign

of love

is all

I ask

[pause]

is all

I ask

[pause]

is all

is all I ask

[pause]

A sign of love

of love

is all I ask

is all

is all I ask

[pause]

A song

a song

of love

is all

I have

[pause]

is all

I have

[pause]

is all

is all I have

[pause]

A song of love

of love

is all I have

is all

is all I have

A song of love is all I have

Horse years

August 14, 2015August 14, 2015 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

Horse years run faster than human years, you’ve seen that boy, haven’t you? Yessir, though, now you’ve finally caught me up. You’re 25 now, 25! And me nearer 80 than not. Not long to go maybe. What say we jump that one last canyon? What say? Let’s go.

Lifeboats

January 2, 2015 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

Our parents are the weight in the keel of our life, slowing us down we shout, keeping you steady they say. When they are gone we can swerve, we skim faster on the tips of the waves; we can tilt our masts and fall. We hope they have left lifeboats.

Year

December 31, 2013 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

What does it matter that it is finished and I am tired?
It was lived to the full
and that is enough.