JUST ANOTHER FREE FLOW DAWN    (7-11-2001; Galveston Island, Texas)

 
as i open the blinds
on my east facing windows
first light comes
rose peach dawn
silently  softly spreads aloft
across high escarpments
of billowing  mountainous
cumulus clouds
blue and barely moving
over this gulf s horizon
illuminating the outer edges
of this wondrous godland s
slowly ever morphing  lanterned realm
vaporous filaments of pink
and blood orange red
burning skirt of sun s orb rising
up over this new day s vast  sparkling gulf
gradually filling morning sky
high above us all
with electrifying awe
as gold light pours glaringly through my window
almost too bright for my eyes to behold
i close my blinds
and turn on my computer
gazing blankly at it s screen saver
colored windows flying by in space
like flowers ablur
along passing roadsides
when you catch yourself driving in a trance
i click my mouse
to pull up a blank m s word screen
inviting words to spontaneously come
as they usually do
though the ones that come
are not the words i had hoped for
but nonetheless
i take what i get as it is
and simply accept what s done is done
as the words continue to come and go
all on their own
like uninvited guests
dropping in to visit
but never staying very long
until they ve said what they came to say
sometimes clear
sometimes vague as a blur
like passing roadsides flying by
when you catch yourself driving
or writing in a trance
that s how these words came along to be
after watching this new day s rising sun
for just as long as i could
then letting go and listening
to the gentle  early morning s cool coastal breeze
of no thinking
where feelings and all my open senses
impressionistically arose up through me
into these resultant
filtered sedimentary words
like fallen leaves
along the roadside
of any road i m on
just waiting to be stirred up into the air
by the whirling tailwinds
of my lapsed attention
as i catch myself
driving or writing
in some strange  mysterious
subconsciously tuned in
transcendently channeled
intuitive trance state way
of spontaneously quickened
heightened awareness
again