i am taking my heart
running away
slipping into the night
with nothing to say
gone in a vanish
i was just as startled
my ghost got made
like a rising vapor
i am dead today

Only on Mars:

• jump three times higher
• plant potatoes with Matt Damon
• visit Valles Marineris, 10 times the size of the Grand Canyon
• recall meeting a prostitute with three boobs
• fall into Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system
• deprive a billionaire of oxygen

take a jump;
discern distance.
take the risk —
risk is relentless.

inspire loss;
compose insistance.
my strength is loss –-
weak with resistance.

a writer’s frost;
frozen intention.
thaw at what cost?
you are witness.

mapped it out
place myself
under the
silent type

ache of quiet
pen held
to light

travel page
confines confide
these decisions
haunt the
interior mind

rescued —
from a mind adrift
time an open rift

the tether measured
in terms of consequence
marked loneliness

initiate shape shift
no greater risk
than time in darkness

reprise the certain
slightly wise face lift
thoughtful witness
stand up again —
opportune in difference

needle to groove
music fills space
time forgets no one

wayward hearts at play
this dark place echoes
a night abandoned

our hearts forever state
keep the beat’s pace
when rapidly summoned

tired of delay
we dancers embrace
turning in tandem

eternity in haste
promise traced in grace
simply random

dear projector,

flashing your perception
on top of me;
I appreciate your conjecture
but this film is a fait accompli.

the actors placed in the dark;
they came here unseen.
dialogue fractured
against a burnin screen.

its a wrap —
no takes left to believe.
credits roll, end of scene,
crossfade into memory.

split self like atom;
a chain reaction ensues.
energy uncontrolled —
electric fission,
between the me beside you.

incapable in this friction;
damages perused.
once the light flashes out —
our hearts divided,
this universe concludes.