WATERDOWNSTONE               for Heidi We compare our scars and talk for hours. You sit, I spin. Love looks through love. . Our dream will not sleep. Feeling jogs us awake. I hold you, my heart, and sing a fool song to renew the day. . You want your plan to work, your luck to change, a miracle to come. I open my heart, right or wrong, and sing this song.

GREEN FEELING The rain comes down on our sunny days. We grow old, and all we know is memory. Like a dumb snail we listen to the sky. Our passions break through to the warmth and breathing of a fresh, green feeling. AFTERNOON FEELING An afternoon feeling brought into the light the instant I looked into your eyes. A need to continue, minute overlapping minute, no logic to it— to focus an obscure desire. DANDELION WISHES You laugh with the thunder circling the moon. You see backlit cows hanging upside down in the sky. You ride the wind making dandelion wishes. You try to flee but return, sealed in a green cell layer.

ALL WAYS Always young always high Maid of earth made of sky You with starlight eyes I with voodoo ways I do what I do to be with you. FOURWINDS At the Fourwinds we enter the borne that true friendship is. The table tilts— we orbit the sun and moon body, voice and mind bright, blesséd, kind. But this is bubble gum, you complain, where are the dirty feet, the fish floating belly up? The table tilts— no killing the monkey in the hall or the worm in the rotten wall. Now mild and restrained, now wild and unreined, we talk, and our words make light. SO Even we even so The candle burns the candle burns