Salamder Sushi

Is there a cure for this existential funk?
asked the obese orangutan
Solzhenitsyn's salamander sushi
is a sure cure.
you will see the world more clearly through
the ancient ice lens
but you will not like it.

Church History

Studying church history looking for God
like digging for fossils to for looking for life
Just as fossils tells how life came to be as it is but
the stones we find do not convay richness of being alive

Carp

In the warm water beneath the dam

a carp slathers he way through the openings

between the reeds rooting for nuggets

of yum the slimy layer of scum

pretending not to notice

that a thousand miles away

I the center of the universe

am pouting

Buddha

Craving striving eating whining

A week spent clinging

to the hope for meaning

Slowing calming releasing

renewing the unfolding of the eight

we will see if affects the weight

Great Whatever

I come as you need me

when you try to hold and define

you will grip less than air

But if you rest in this moment

and release your expectations

I will come and untangle the knots

of your soul

I am fond of lonely monkeys

If you become still in faith

I will pluck the lice from your insides

In the distance

Are they whimpers or are they screams

I sense another lonely monkey

From a the god like Harry Harlow

experiments of neglect

the screams like gas bubble

trapped in the swamp struggle against

the mud to be released

When the whimpers break free

through vent of vulnerability

Will they be heard and acknowledge

or will others recoil run away

We may never know

but the sensing of another lightens this monkey's load