invitation

out where i work

there is a place of great mystery power and beauty

i would like to take you there

to walk the fields and hills

climb the rock bluffs

sit on the mountaintop

and enjoy the immensity of this place

the fragrance of pine and fir

lush thick mosses

sage and wild rose

dark moist earth

sun’s heat beating against granite

raven and crow everywhere playing

flirting  sitting  watching

sensuous currents beckoning

entry into darkening cave-like undergrowth

masculine power  feminine power

and places where these two forces meet and blend

a circle of stone rises from the center of the world

out where i work

there is a place of great mystery

power and beauty

i would like to take you there

will you come

david barnes

the  unnamed  one

i am the available passion of the world

eros flames this heart and belly

ecstasy floods

in streams of liquid fire

through these veins and arteries

swells this flesh

creation of a newly emergent and unnamed one

i am conceived

thrust forth

i am the fierce and radical unveiling of a new order of being

i am the blood of the east in the wine of a new pressing

santiago california beijing and the cape

dissolve

in a bright new vintage

a bold virility expands outward

through the atomic structure of this body

swollen with the blood

the wine of new life pressing

i am the virile uprightness of the world and its people

good and evil disappear into my liquid presence

i am neither good nor evil

there is no choice

i am neither permission nor restraint

i neither abandon nor withhold

i am penetrating

i am fertile

i am whole

i am the thrust of the divine

the energy of a new unqualified intercourse

i am the ecstasy of the whole body

a seminal firing in the womb of a new order

i am the available passion of the world

david barnes