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     Here I go

                  Jumping off my plateau

into

the cold

blue

soothing waters

below

     There I go

                     It isn't easy you know

                                          But once I hit the water and splashed I knew I just had to go

Can you follow the laughing splashing

simply smashing…

Rotatory

thy, my, thour

shared prayer spinning

distinguish,

then collapse distinction separating our appeals to the gods and

men moving soldiers ~~~~~

Life force flowing obstructed,…

That's the portrait that started my friendship with Stephen Alcorn. I liked his work, called him up, and commissioned a linoleum cut for the jacket of my forthcoming CD, released in the autumn of 1997. Sure, I'm a visionary too, however only cultural heroes applied to the Almanac project he asked me to write for him a few years later.

It's a…

    Breathing Lessons Rhymed

How to heal? It’s all within you

You make it real when you begin to

Breathe more consciously

Small beginnings grow great trees

Saplings, limbs, flowing with ease

From breath to breath, sweet release

in the wind your choice of…