i know lizards like jelly, because i have fed wild geckos on the roof of my hut in the seychelles islands. she was called the morning lizard, and i would drop clear ponds from the tips of my fingers for her to drink, and drop gobs of silly flavored jelly on the for her to lick.
i know that it is possible to become intimate with a stranger, from a distance, across time and continents, because i have before a young master in a very private tea ceremony. i him move, whisk, wipe, fold, touch, offer, drink, enter, exit,
well one wasn't so good. i have at carnegie hall. i been homeless, panhandled on the streets. i witnessed death, and birth, and graduation. i been told to leave, and invited to stay. i to a big new years eve party in new york city, with many famous people, the mayor, baryshnikov, jessica lange, i was at the opening of the which one best film that year. i was out of high school i was given the key to the of baltimore. what a kick. i'd more of those. i was arrested i am the highest point of my family tree. i call them to fruition, i sing them themes about the beautiful sky, but they cannot see it. is a canopy above them, being woven out of determination to grow. out of the legacy of pain. i them but they do not come, they cannot come, no sun hits them. i have with turtles in the open sea. i found ancient, nails on the shore. and written about the boat, the sailors, and their , from one piece of survival. i grew up in a hospital, my brother die. i grew up in a hotel , watching my mother bring home left over food.for our dinner. i have cried my self to sleep by the cold sea, with no or blanket or dime for the phone, and awakened in the warm sun, in his arms, hearing his grunts and the rustling of his leaves, his purring and measured by these things, and so became a fearful calm, and i have run to the storm the completed, weakened by love, me back to the hunt my i have turned my back to the sunrise hotel rooms and out the name of the setting sun from the desert floor i've been it was happening i made it happen i have walked down tiny lanes alone, for i planned revolutions i have myself into moderation i my own shadow i have been attacked by of red ants. by horses by people i have been carried all the way, by someone, now and but he is always too to stay then and i hate him for loving my i have been in a helicopter, flying over the alaskan glaciers, and i have in the concord, faster than sound. as much as i have learned camouflage, i have my broken body on the plains at dusk i in a jet when the oxygen masks dropped i came out to the car and my daughter was gone her car seat. she had me in. all of it is written over and again. i have skiied, water skiied, raced in the water, i have played and cards. i learned chess at 8, i learned my funny valentine. i met bob dylan. He me a poet. i rode with maximilian shell, and leonard cohen in the same elevator.on occasio