A Warning

A Warning

Some wait

for the living ripples 

to return

from across time,

but their intensity

becomes lost

beneath the wind blown breakers

after too many reflections.

-Robert L. Jackson III

Transparent Desires

Transparent Desires

On this finite journey

is any energy left

to generate the heat

that will melt 

our fissures together

and repair holes

in the filtering gut

while burning skin

to a crisp crust,

brittle to life's waves

of electrons

and photons,

transversing our boundaries,

as if we were glass,

to heat our core,

to boiling magma,

soft and malleable,

just below

the soles of tourists.

-Robert L. Jackson III