RED LEAF DANCE IN A WHIRLWIND    (11-28-1995; somewhere on a long, out of state road trip adventure with a good friend.)

red leaf dance
spinning away in a whirlwind
just up ahead
on this dead end road
suddenly shifts me into
some momentary
timeless state
of introspectively reflective
abstract daydream mind
upon my eye s sight
falling upon
this surreally unexpected
stop sign staring back in
at my stalled out mind
as slow death so quietly
so gracefully arabesques
between these sudden
subtle  symbolic signs
of perhaps my own uncertain
subconsciously unforeseen
potential future victory
or only the smoldering ashes
of my futile self defeat instead
all sensed  seen and felt
within this red leaf dance
spinning away in a whirlwind
somewhere just up ahead
with me here
still momentarily stuck
adrift  afloat  aloft
in this strange  yielding limbo
of cryptically symbolic thoughts
but not quite fully lost
just yet
here in this tranced out
spaced out state
of timeless daydream mind
similarly spinning away
like a red leaf dance
in yet another kind
of more internal whirlwind
somewhere between
here  there and beyond
just up ahead of
this surreally crazy stop sign
stuck here like me
in timeless mind
way out here at the very end
of this one way
dead end road
which apparently
only leads
and goes
symbolically
and literally
to both nowhere
and everywhere
equally alike
here  there
within
and beyond
the boundlessly flowing
timeless  mindless
infinite realms
of the great mystery s
ever mysterious
own peculiar
little
idiosyncratic
ineffable
whims
as so clearly
revealed here
just now
in this
red leaf dance
spinning away
in a whirlwind
just up ahead
on this
dead end
road