Advanced Degrees Above El Paso

These are the kind of thoughts

go on the road at five AM,

advanced degrees I got

in place of ones I didn't get

with jobs and friends:

When the Trojan War Was Lost,

Shakespeare Didn't Write This Poem,

True Light That Lights,

Virtual Man's Orc Carapace,

(that should be put in quotes),

Prince Shibboleth, the Seer of Balaam,

Love Voyage, Blake's Jerusalem,

Paragories, Isaiah's Story,

Outtakes, Flower of the Golden Age,

Vox Poemato, Psalm 46.

Some of these have since appeared,

For simple belonging I sacrificed drafts,

fictional bios changed, attached,

Elder Stretch, CheesE Blocks, The Macks.

The past I gave up last.

Sun

He said that wind and cold were naught

but clouds did harm

He could not play without the light

the heat the warm

He said he could not play so well

until the clouds struck from the sun

until the clouds broke light

until he had full light


it was a question of the sun.