Fire & Water Moon

Bless confusion’s tempest

its arid calm & furious defense

the gray ash of loss

the fire bereft of unkindness

Kiss the cheek of a burned mountain

Caress wind & power blown down

Shelter the lost flooding to sea

Make a home in dereliction of duty

Figure that nothing makes sense

Take a break from responsibility

Forget identity & vow

Blaspheme parsley & tarragon

for their vulnerable habit of generosity

Resound cobbles with greedy complaint

embrace abject transference:

blame atoms, curse kernels

assault capital, greed & war

Give up on noble projects & wallow

like a splotched pig in a forest—

all nearsighted hunger & shadow

Keep no record of this

Make no artistic moves

Relinquish your vanishing point

such that the sky slants inward

to pierce the beating within

Allow fat gravy to stain your body—

afterward, remorse sliding free

of resolve’s adamantine core

Protect nothing

Befriend no one

Allow the bottom to rise toward center

Finally, after touring hell,

invoke the name of just one being

whom you cannot hate.

Let them be an oceanic presence

where all is washed in the grace

of one blue drop.

Let the briefest cool breath

go forth free of anger

to bless the next.

Amen.