She waits for us

April 22, 2020 / mbrazfieldm / 5 Comments

no answer is also an answer

🦅 Hopi Proverb

to stare into the blank horizon

it lacks the pastel colors mother used to love

we the silent types proud and self assured cowards or lost fools

makes very little difference

to tighten my jaw as you purse your lips we know what we are thinking

we have no answer for what is happening to us

all we are not willing to admit that She is critical because of our silence

are we prepared for what comes this way as Her pulse tires and slows

the silence without bird songs is the vilest way to perish

gentrification lullaby

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 / mbrazfieldm / 2 Comments

pewter

clouds above

five years ago

life was much different

trees lined the children’s laughter

cut

down

for

pricey

empty

unobtainable

homes

if i lived on Mars

March 26, 2020 / mbrazfieldm / 5 Comments

fragile

March 16, 2020 / mbrazfieldm / 3 Comments

so fragile

the breath from my heart

only nature knows why Earth

has swallowed us whole into a fog

of tormented yellow grief that lingers there as a dying waxless flame

line

March 14, 2020March 13, 2020 / mbrazfieldm / 8 Comments

off the sand dirt tarmac wacks ready of the yet not a time for happy let ye olden wire zap the conscience to open the eye to come what may if knees are to be bent bend to Who saves the soul in the alley no one’s told if what when why how could they for what vision yourself fluffy cloud grandmother’s pie in the morgue of our contrition emergency suddenly emergency was were we not official then just continue to wash your hands

can’t figure out

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 / mbrazfieldm / 5 Comments

why we dream so distantly where the planets question who we are

black holes surrender in perplex look at each other in their deep blue eye

and say forget them

could be that in Tennessee my heart i left there beating

nature are you a conscience forcing me to look at the destruction of the muffler in my car

this morning she a strange lady clutched me in a surrender of half breed slumber

children screaming for their cereal and when i come to they were asking for some pop

climate change

December 26, 2019December 26, 2019 / mbrazfieldm / 6 Comments

at the bench i think i’m sitting watching absent mindedly soaking in the flair and magic of the scene jesters and contortionists control the court in front of me cages of allegory truths and fantasies but lest we forget the straight up lies of the institutional do gooders is this it voice of reason hushed up forever when we beg with Coke and Starbucks paper cups where do the coins truly go when we need help and guidance in completely being our scared self why must we worship your flesh and bone pastor and why is it that only your bumper sticker matters i can think too and feel and love i understand that new deals of any color my Mother will not save unless we’re willing to streamline and electrify our own internal ways honoring self and brother truly from the heart giving to Her salvation and letting go the appropriation of who’s got the only righteous thoughts